Government political structure and violent death rates: A longitudinal analysis of forty-three countries, 1960–2008
ConclusionsHomicide and suicide appear to be more prevalent in democracies. Future analyses should examine which aspects of democracies lead to higher rates of violent death and should seek to use independently collected mortality data. (Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior)
Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior - August 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Special issue introduction
Publication date: Available online 7 August 2019Source: Aggression and Violent BehaviorAuthor(s): Alex R. Piquero (Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior)
Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior - August 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Violence and health: Merging criminal justice, law, mental health, and public health - Part B: Policy and institutional actors as nexuses for criminal justice and public health
Publication date: Available online 6 August 2019Source: Aggression and Violent BehaviorAuthor(s): Bandy X. Lee, Grace Lee, Paul Bryant, Morkeh Blay-Tofey, Erik Kramer (Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior)
Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior - August 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Fame-seeking mass shooters in America: Severity, characteristics, and media coverage
Publication date: Available online 2 August 2019Source: Aggression and Violent BehaviorAuthor(s): Jason R. Silva, Emily Ann Greene-ColozziAbstractThe current study examines the severity, characteristics, and coverage of fame-seeking mass shootings in the United States from 1966 to 2018. Specifically, this research highlights the rate of incidents and casualties, provides a comparison of fame-seeking shootings against all other mass shootings, and examines the media's coverage of the phenomenon. Findings illustrate a rise in incidents and casualties at the turn of the century. Fame-seeking perpetrators were overwhelmingly m...
Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior - August 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Childhood risk factors for personality disorder symptoms related to violence
ConclusionFamilies and schools seem to be particularly crucial environments which may influence the development of personality disorders and behavioral problems such as violence. More prospective longitudinal studies are needed to further disentangle the complex interactions between psychosocial family factors, personality disorders and violent behavior and to further explore their underlying mechanisms in order to inform more effective intervention programs. (Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior)
Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior - August 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Using self-reflective tools to understand violence perpetration among patients with personality disorders
This study attempted to address these limitations by using behaviour cycle logs (BCLs) (Gordon & Wong, 1999–2009), a self-reflective behavioural strategy tool, that is currently used as an approach to manage violence on a particular PD forensic unit. All available BCLs in the period from January 2014 to April 2017 belonging to 11 patients were analysed. Using thematic analysis, three themes on factors associated with violence use were derived: power struggles, raging emotions, blame game. These findings also highlighted potential treatment targets to curb future violence use. Future research is needed to see if these fac...
Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior - July 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Truancy intervention and violent offending: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Publication date: Available online 19 July 2019Source: Aggression and Violent BehaviorAuthor(s): Stephanie M. Cardwell, Lorraine Mazerolle, Alex R. PiqueroAbstractViolent offending and violent offenders occupy a key policy issue and policy group for prevention and intervention efforts. Research has examined an array of risk factors implicated in predicting violent offending, but interventions aimed at reducing these risk factors and their effect on violence have been less investigated, especially those within a randomized trial. We use data from a truancy reduction experiment in Australia to examine whether participants in...
Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior - July 19, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The propensity for aggressive behavior and lifetime incarceration risk: A test for gene-environment interaction (G × E) using whole-genome data
Publication date: Available online 10 July 2019Source: Aggression and Violent BehaviorAuthor(s): J.C. Barnes, Hexuan Liu, Ryan T. Motz, Peter T. Tanksley, Rachel Kail, Amber L. Beckley, Daniel W. Belsky, Benjamin W. Domingue, Terrie E. Moffitt, Travis C. Pratt, Jasmin WertzAbstractIncarceration is a disruptive event that is experienced by a considerable proportion of the United States population. Research has identified social factors that predict incarceration risk, but scholars have called for a focus on the ways that individual differences combine with social factors to affect incarceration risk. Our study is an initial...
Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior - July 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Assessing general strain theory and measures of victimization, 2002–2018
Publication date: Available online 26 June 2019Source: Aggression and Violent BehaviorAuthor(s): Nina Barbieri, Stephen J. Clipper, Chelsey Narvey, Amanda Rude, Jessica M. Craig, Nicole Leeper PiqueroAbstractGeneral Strain Theory (GST) is one of the leading theories of crime and delinquency in the field of criminology, with victimization identified as a leading source of strain due to the frequency and prevalence of its experience. However, measures of victimization widely range from direct experiences of physical violence to vicarious or even anticipated victimization, making it difficult to isolate the explanatory contri...
Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior - June 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Coping strategies among immigrant women who have experienced intimate partner violence in North America: A narrative review
This study explores what is known about these victims' coping strategies to develop a better understanding of existing studies in the literature. We systematically reviewed qualitative studies on immigrant female IPV survivor coping strategies that were published in peer-reviewed journals between the year 2007 and 2017. We sought to answer the question, “What is known about coping strategies utilized by female immigrant survivors' of IPV in the US and Canada?” Eight qualitative studies were reviewed, and the results showed that survivors utilized multiple formal and informal coping strategies. We critically explored an...
Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior - June 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Early risk factors for violence among Hispanic youth: Evidence from a systematic review
ConclusionsImplications for theory and practice, as well as suggestions for future research are discussed. (Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior)
Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior - June 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Dynamic risk factors: Conceptualization, measurement, and evidence
Publication date: Available online 21 June 2019Source: Aggression and Violent BehaviorAuthor(s): Roxanne Heffernan, Daniel Wegerhoff, Tony WardAbstractThe concept of “criminogenic need” is firmly entrenched within forensic research and practice. So much so that its status is rarely questioned, and its central role in risk reduction and management is accepted at face value. However, the analogue concept of dynamic risk factor (DRF) has recently come under scrutiny, with criticisms centering upon its composite nature and lack of coherence. These criticisms challenge the presumed causality of these factors, and thus their...
Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior - June 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Continuity of the delinquent career behind bars: Predictors of violent misconduct among female delinquents
Publication date: Available online 15 June 2019Source: Aggression and Violent BehaviorAuthor(s): Jessica M. Craig, Chad R. TrulsonAbstractWhile many scholars have investigated potential predictors of institutional misconduct among adult inmates, few have assessed the determinants of misconduct among incarcerated juvenile delinquents. This lack of research attention to the predictors of institutional misconduct is especially notable among female delinquents. As females have been theorized to have unique pathways to offending, it is pertinent to examine their pathways to institutional misconduct. The current study investigat...
Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior - June 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Editorial Board
Publication date: May–June 2019Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior, Volume 46Author(s): (Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior)
Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior - June 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Parental supervision and later offending: A systematic review of longitudinal studies
Publication date: Available online 12 June 2019Source: Aggression and Violent BehaviorAuthor(s): India M.L. Flanagan, Katherine M. Auty, David P. FarringtonAbstractParental supervision has been identified as an important influence on offending. This systematic review focuses specifically on parental supervision, compared to existing systematic reviews which tend to concentrate on a wider range of family factors. The main aim of this article is to assess the precise nature of the association between parental supervision and offending. Overall, 19 prospective longitudinal studies were identified (published since 1996) which ...
Source: Aggression and Violent Behavior - June 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
