Leroy H Pelton

Leroy H. Pelton is a professor in and former director of the School of Social Work, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and professor emeritus of the School of Social Work, Salem State College, Massachusetts. He is the author of The Psychology of Nonviolence , For Reasons of Poverty: A Critical Analysis of the Public Child Welfare System in the United States , and Doing Justice: Liberalism, Group Constructs, and Individual Realities , and the editor of The Social Context of Child Abuse and...See more

Leroy H. Pelton is a professor in and former director of the School of Social Work, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and professor emeritus of the School of Social Work, Salem State College, Massachusetts. He is the author of The Psychology of Nonviolence , For Reasons of Poverty: A Critical Analysis of the Public Child Welfare System in the United States , and Doing Justice: Liberalism, Group Constructs, and Individual Realities , and the editor of The Social Context of Child Abuse and Neglect . He has also written numerous journal articles on psychology, social work, child welfare, and social policy. See less