Child Abuse: An Agenda for Action (Oxford University Press 1980), edited by George Gerbner, Catherine J. Ross and Edward Zigler, is one of the first cross-disciplinary examinations of child abuse, its meaning, causes, context, and proposals for responding to this social problem. A collection of original essays by experts including Lawrence Aber, Mary Ainsworth, Richard Gelles, Alfred Kahn and Sheila Kamerman, Albert J. Solnit and others, in addition to the editors, the volume remains available from Amazon and in libraries. Catherine’s chapters include The Lessons of the Past: Defining and Controlling Child Abuse in the United States, and (with Edward Zigler) An Agenda for Action.
