Books by Elizabeth Herzog

CONTENTSIntroductory CommentFocus of Review -- The Core Group of Studies -- Defining Father AbsenceJuvenile DelinquencyProblems of Differential Treatment -- Are They Really Overrepresented? -- Connection Between Father Absence and Juvenile Delinquency -- Family Factors -- Individual Psychological Factors -- Community Factors -- To Sum up Intellectual and Psychosocial FunctioningSchool Achievement -- SES Controls -- Types of Father AbsenceMasculine IdentityControls and Replications -- Measures Employed -- Long-term Prognosis -- Mental Illness and Marital Instability -- Recurrent Findings and QuestionsSome Conclusions. Implications, and QuestionsRecurrent Themes and Differentiations -- Fathers. Present and Absent Research ConsiderationsThe Family -- Un-families -- Context and Perspective -- Misleading Research Models -- The Type III ErrorSome Practical ImplicationsPrograms for all Boys -- Supports for the One-parent Mother -- More Men in Their Lives -- Public Attitudes and Information -- "Prevention"References