Robin D. Perrin is currently Professor of Sociology at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. His research interests and publications are in the areas of interpersonal violence, deviance theory, the social construction of social problems, and the sociology of religion. He is the coauthor of three books: "Social Deviance: Being, Behaving, and Branding" (with D. Ward & T. Carter, 1991), "Child Maltreatment: An Introduction" (with C. Miller-Perrin, Sage, 1999; 2007), and "Family Violence Across the Lifespan" (with O. Barnett & C. Miller-Perrin, Sage, 1997, 2005; 2011). He is the author or c...