EMILY M. DOUGLAS, PH.D.

I am a full professor in the Department of Social Work and Child Advocacy at Montclair State University in New Jersey. 

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Previously, I was a Congressional fellow, funded by the Society for Research on Child Development / American Association for the Advancement of Science & Technology, where I worked for the U.S. Senate on child maltreatment policy issues.  

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My research focuses on  program and policy implications of issues that address child and family well-being, largely in the areas of family violence: fatal child maltreatment, under-represented victims of partner violence and helpseeking, children's exposure to partner violence corporal punishment,  and the connection between research and policy.

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I am currently part of a $700,000 externally funded project collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to monitor the New Jersey Department of Children and Families and a $1 million project to assess partner violence and helpseeking among men. 

 

My fifth book was published in 2025, (Routledge) The Routledge Handbook of Men’s Victimisation in Intimate Relationships (with Drs. Louise Dixon and Denise Hines). 

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My fourth book was released in 2016 (Springer), Child Maltreatment Fatalities in the United States: Four Decades of Policy, Programs, and Professional Responses. 

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My recent university leadership (at two universities) includes 7 years as department chair, serving as co-chair of Project Inclusion, which was a campus-wide initiative concerning diversity, equity, and inclusion; and co-chairing a campus-wide summit on social justice summit.  

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• Read my quote about child abduction in New Jersey.

• Read my quote about government counts of child deaths in Texas. 

• Read my letter to the editor in the Portland Press Herald about the recent string of child abuse/neglect deaths in Maine. 

• Read my recent contributions to an article about child abuse/neglect deaths in Maine with the Maine Monitor. 

• Listen to my guest appearance on Male Victims of Abuse on Central Standard, KCUR - NPR, Kansas City, MO.

• View my recent testimony at the Maine State Legislature on fatal child maltreatment. (scroll to 1:38:00) 

• Listen to my interview on NPR's Weekend Edition.