Denise A. Hines received her Ph.D. in the Human Development Program in the Psychology Department at Boston University. Her dissertation, a behavioral genetic study of aggression in intimate relationships, was supported by an individual National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. Her primary research interests include genetic influences on aggressive behaviors in family relationships, female-perpetrated family aggression, and cultural influences on family violence. She has several publications on these topics, including a book from SAGE entitled Family Violence in a Cultural Perspective (2004), and she has made numerous conference presentations relating to… issues in family violence. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Family Research Laboratory and Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, along with Murray Straus and David Finkelhor.