James Ptacek
Professor
Department of Sociology
Suffolk University
United States of America
Biography
Professor Ptacek has been working on the problem of violence against women since 1981. He has been a batterers’ counselor and has conducted training on domestic violence intervention for hospital, mental health, and criminal justice professionals. He has done research on men who batter; on rape and battering on college campuses; and on battered women’s experience with the courts. His 2010 edited book Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women (Oxford University Press) explores new and controversial ways that communities are responding to violence in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. His current research examines the class dimensions of intimate violence. In his teaching, he brings victim advocates and community antiviolence workers into his classes to show students the kinds of career paths that are available to them.
Research Interest
Masculinity and violence, Legal responses to intimate violence, Feminist organizing around violence, Restorative justice and other alternative responses to violence against women, Class, race, gender, and justice, The sociology of emotions
Publications
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2010 “Re-Imagining Justice for Crimes of Violence Against Women.†In James Ptacek (Ed.), In James Ptacek (Ed.), Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women. New York: Oxford University Press.
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2010 “Co-optation and Resistance: Three Feminist Challenges to Anti-Violence Work.†In James Ptacek (Ed.), Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women. New York: Oxford University Press.
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2013 “Restorative Justice.†In Susan Miller, Angela Gover, and Claire Renzetti (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Crime and Gender Studies (New York: Routledge), pp. 226-228.2010 Editor, Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women. New York: Oxford University Press.
