Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Why Teens Experiment and Strategies to Keep them Safe (2006)
David A. Wolfe, Peter G. Jaffe and Claire V. Crooks. This book focuses on the crucial role that relationships play in the lives of teenagers. The authors particularly examine the ways that healthy relationships can help teens avoid such common risk behaviors as substance abuse, dating violence, sexual assault, and unsafe sexual practices. Published by Yale University Press.

Protecting Children from Domestic Violence: Strategies for Community Intervention (2004)
Edited by Peter Jaffe, Linda Baker and Alison Cunningham. The 14 chapters introduce the problem and address individual and group-level responses as well as system-level responses. This book is published by Guilford Press of New York City. ~ $40.00

Child Custody and Domestic Violence: A Call for Safety and Accountability (2003)
by P.G. Jaffe, N. Lemon & S.E. Poisson. Sage Publications. Focuses on the complex challenges facing judges, lawyers, legislators, and mental health professionals in developing safe and effective strategies for resolving custody disputes. The authors integrate recent clinical and legal issues to outline the essential differences between custody disputes with and without allegations and findings of domestic violence, and the different analysis and distinct interventions by judges, policymakers, and mental health professionals. ~ $45.00

Domestic Violence in the Lives of Children: The Future of Research, Intervention, and Social Policy (2001)
A collection of studies, edited by Jeffrey L. Edleson and Sandra A. Graham-Bermann, that builds on two previous American Psychological Association (APA) volumes: Children Exposed to Marital Violence (1998) and Violence Against Children in the Family and the Community (1998). This volume charts new directions for research and integrating the separate areas of domestic violence and child maltreatment. Cutting edge methodology is emphasized, with contributors discussing the important research constructs, best available measures and methods of analyzing data, effectiveness of interventions, and implications for public policy. ~ $62.00

Children Exposed to Family Violence: Current Issues in Research, Intervention, Prevention, and Policy Development (2000)
Edited by Robert Geffner, Peter Jaffe and Marlies Sudermann, this book is a compilation of proceedings from the 2nd International Conference on Children Exposed to Family Violence held in 1997. ~ $32.50 It is published by the Haworth Press.

Working Together to End Domestic Violence (1996)
Co-authored by Peter Jaffe, Nancy Lemon, Jack Sandler & David Wolfe. A concise book written for those who work in the areas of domestic violence, child abuse or elder abuse. Topics covered include current facts and controversies, the causes of domestic violence, legal responses to domestic violence, delivering services to those affected, and coordination of an integrated community response. Resources available in both the United States and Canada are detailed in appendices. ~ $35.00 Also available from Mancorp Publishing Inc. of Tampa.

Ending the Cycle of Violence (1995)
Edited by Einat Peled, Peter Jaffe & Jeffrey Edleson and published by Sage. The focus is on community responses to children who have been exposed to wife assault in their homes, including assessment and treatment, criminal justice interventions, the role of child protection agencies, and school programs. ~ $25.00

Young Offenders Act: A Revolution in Juvenile Justice (1991)
Edited by Peter Jaffe, Alan Leschied & Wayne Willis and published by the University of Toronto Press. Contributors include both academics and practitioners. Chapters address a wide range of issues concerning legislation, policy and practice, and three chapters address the mental health needs of young offenders. ~ $10.00

Children of Battered Women (1990)
A book from the Sage series on Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, using a child development perspective to review the immediate and long-term consequences of exposure to wife assault in the home. ~ $20.00