Kidnapping and Violence

- Partner Kidnapping and Hostage-Taking

- Bride Abduction

- Family Abduction in the United States

- International Family-Child Abduction

- Non-Family Juvenile Abduction

- Responses to Abducted Children

- Infant Abduction

- Kidnapping by Cesarean Section and State-Sponsored Abduction of Newborns

- Human Trafficking

- Ransom Kidnapping

- Kidnapping: Carjacking and Related Crimes

- Aircraft Hijacking

- Maritime Piracy and Kidnapping

- Kidnapping Hoaxes

Dr. Stephen J. Morewitz is President of the consulting firm, Stephen J. Morewitz, Ph.D., & Associates, San Francisco & Tarzana, CA, which was founded in 1988. He is the Founder and President of the Forensic Social Sciences Association. He is a Lecturer in the Department of Justice Studies and Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, San Jose State University and is a Lecturer in the Department of Health Sciences, California State University, East Bay. Dr. Morewitz has been on the faculty or staffs of Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine and School of Public Health, DePaul University, and the California School of Podiatric Medicine. Dr. Morewitz, a triple-certified forensic social scientist, is the author of twelve books, one forthcoming book, and many other publications. His books include the award-winning Handbook of Forensic Sociology and Psychology (Co-Edited with Dr. Mark L. Goldstein) (New York: Springer, 2014), the award-winning Death Threats. New Research and Clinical Perspectives (New York: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2008), the award-winning, Domestic Violence and Maternal and Child Health (New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers/Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2004), the award-winning Stalking and Violence. New Patterns of Trauma and Obsession (New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers/Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2003), and Sexual Harassment and Social Change in American Society (Bethesda, MD: Austin & Winfield, Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, 1996). In 2010, he was named San Jose State University Scholar Presenter for his book, Death Threats. New Research and Clinical Perspectives (New York: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2008).