There are many people to thank for their contributions to this book. First, I am grateful
to Katherine Chabalko, associate editor at Springer, for approaching me with the
idea for this book, supporting the project, and being there to help. I am especially
thankful for the authors in this book who dedicated their expertise on each topic and
made this book possible. Their work and dedication helped to provide multidisciplinary,
evidence-based perspectives that can be helpful to researchers, scholars,
practitioners, legal actors, and educators who aim to understand theory, etiology,
and empirical research regarding female violence.
In particular, I would like to thank each author who contributed original works in
the area of female violence. This book would not have been possible without the
contributions of Fred Buttell, Pauline Brennan, Meda Chesney-Lind, Michelle
Davies, Donald Dutton, Dorothy Espelage, Kathleen Ferraro, John Hamel, Lucie
Holmgreen, Shabnam Javdani, Debra Oswald, Mari Pierce, Lisa De La Rue, Emily
Starr, Abby Vandenberg, and Katherine White.
I would also like to thank some of my best student research assistants, Megan
Faulkner for her tireless work, assistance, and keen eye for detail on content, references,
and APA format of all chapters and Abby Hafer for her thoughtful review of
a chapter. These students assisted despite graduating from Penn State Berks year(s)
ago and both continue to offer research and editing assistance for this and many
other research projects. I am thankful to have worked with such wonderful student
assistants. I am also thankful to my family who inspires and supports me through
the process.