Handbook of Child Maltreatment / Child Maltreatment Bd.2 (PDF)

Jill E. Korbin, Ph.D. is Associate Dean, Professor of  Anthropology, Director of the Schubert Center for Child Studies, and Co-Director of the Childhood Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. Korbin earned her Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of California at Los Angeles. Her awards include the Margaret Mead Award (1986) from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology; a Congressional Science Fellowship (1985-86 in the Office of Senator Bill Bradley) through the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society for Research in Child Development; the Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at Case Western Reserve University (1992); and a Fulbright Senior Specialist Award (2005). Korbin served on the National Research Council's Panel on Research on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the Institute of Medicine's Panel on Pathophysiology and Prevention of Adolescent and Adult Suicide. Korbin served for multiple years on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN), and as an Associate Editor, Book Review Editor, or Editorial Board Member for Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal. Korbin has published numerous articles on child maltreatment in relationship to culture and context, and edited the first volume on culture and child maltreatment, Child Abuse and Neglect: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (1981, University of California Press.)  Korbin's research interests include culture and human development; cultural, medical and psychological anthropology; neighborhood, community, and contextual influences on children and families; child maltreatment; and child and adolescent well-being.

Richard D. Krugman, MD, is Professor of Pediatrics, Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He served as Director of the C. Henry Kempe National