Murray A. Straus

{{Short description|American professor of sociology (1926–2016)}}

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| birth_name = Murray Arnold Straus

| birth_date = {{birth date|1926|6|18|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = New York City

| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|5|13|1926|6|18|mf=yes}}

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| nationality = American

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| workplaces = {{nowrap|University of New Hampshire}}

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| alma_mater = University of Wisconsin
(B.A., M.S., Ph.D.)

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| academic_advisors = William H. Sewell{{cite journal | url=http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/Burgess.pdf | title=Ernest W. Burgess Award Presented to Murray A Straus | journal=Journal of Marriage and the Family | date=February 1978 | access-date=2015-05-27 | archive-date=2013-06-19 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619022920/http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/Burgess.pdf | url-status=dead }}

| doctoral_students = David Finkelhor{{cite web|title = Dissertation Catalog: Sexually victimized children and their families (Finkelhor, David, dissertant)|website = University of New Hampshire Library|url = https://unh.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991016751309805221&context=L&vid=01USNH_UNH:MAIN|publisher = University of New Hampshire|access-date = 2022-01-02}}

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| known_for = Conflict Tactics Scale

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| spouse = Dorothy Dunn Straus

| children = 2

| website = {{URL|pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2}}

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Murray Arnold Straus{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BnGuAAAAIAAJ|title = Intimate Violence|isbn = 9780671617523|last1 = Gelles|first1 = Richard J.|last2 = Straus|first2 = Murray Arnold|year = 1988}} (June 18, 1926 – May 13, 2016){{cite web | url=http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/bio.html | title=IDV Member Bios | accessdate=27 May 2015}}{{cite web | url=http://cola.unh.edu/article/2016/05/passing-murray-straus | title=Passing: Murray A. Straus | publisher=University of New Hampshire | date=17 May 2016 | accessdate=17 May 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604193150/http://cola.unh.edu/article/2016/05/passing-murray-straus | archive-date=4 June 2016 | url-status=dead }} was an American professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire. He is best known for creating the conflict tactics scale, the "most widely used instrument in research on family violence".{{cite journal | last1=Straus | first1=Murray A. | last2=Douglas | first2=Emily M. | date=October 2004 | title=A Short Form of the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales, and Typologies for Severity and Mutuality | url=http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/CTS37-%20Short%20Form%20of%20CTS2%20Oct%202004.pdf | journal=Violence and Victims | volume=19 | issue=5 | pages=507–20 | accessdate=May 20, 2014 | doi=10.1891/088667004780927800 | pmid=15844722 | archive-date=August 23, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150823234201/http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/CTS37-%20Short%20Form%20of%20CTS2%20Oct%202004.pdf | url-status=dead }}