David Finkelhor PhD

David Finkelhor the Director of the Crimes against Children Research Center, Co-Director of the Family Research Laboratory, Professor of Sociology, and University Professor, at the University of New Hampshire. David Finkelhor has been studying the problems of child victimization, child maltreatment and family violence since 1977. David Finkelhor best known for my conceptual and empirical work on the problem of child sexual abuse, reflected in publications such as Sourcebook on Child Sexual Abuse (Sage, 1986) and Nursery Crimes (Sage, 1988). David Finkelhor has also written about child homicide, missing and abducted children, children exposed to domestic and peer violence, commercial sexual exploitation and internet victimization.

David Finkelhor the co-founder of several large national data collection efforts including the National Survey of Children Exposed to Violence (NatSCEV) and the National Incidence Study of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway CHildren (NISMART).

In David Finkelhor recent work, for example, my book, Child Victimization (Oxford University Press, 2008), David Finkelhor have tried to unify and integrate knowledge about all the diverse forms of child victimization in a field David Finkelhor has termed Developmental Victimology. This book received the Daniel Schneider Child Welfare Book of the Year award in 2009. Altogether, David Finkelhor editor and author of 12 books and over 250 journal articles and book chapters.