Showing papers in "Aggression and Violent Behavior in 2008"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used meta-analysis to examine the relationship between childhood exposure to domestic violence and children's internalizing, externalizing, and trauma symptoms, and found that the relationship was significantly stronger for boys than for girls.

TL;DR: The relationship between drug use and criminal behavior by conducting a systematic review of the literature and a meta-analysis of the strength of the relationship was investigated in this article, which showed that the odds of offending were three to four times greater for drug users than non-drug users.

TL;DR: It is suggested that dysfunctional interactions between serotonin and dopamine systems in the prefrontal cortex may be an important mechanism underlying the link between impulsive aggression and its comorbid disorders.

TL;DR: In this paper, the similarities and differences between dating violence and marital violence are examined, with a discussion on how a theoretical framework developed to examine marital aggression can be effectively applied to violent dating relationships.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed research on customer aggression and sexual harassment in service contexts along the following lines: 1) Antecedents of customer misbehavior as reflected in organizational perceptions, customer motives (e.g., low level of perceived risk) and role-related risk factors (e) dependence on customer, working outside the organization, climate of informality); 2) the effect of customer aggression on service provider well-being, work-related attitudes and behavior; 3) Coping strategies used by service providers in response to customer aggression, and 4) a comparison

TL;DR: In this article, a revised theory of the therapeutic alliance is proposed for therapists who work to reduce future risk of criminal behavior, which is particularly relevant for therapists working to reduce the risk of recidivism.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline the current literature on what is known about the processes by which individuals utilize the Internet for child sexual abuse and discuss the difficulties faced by criminal justice agencies in both the definition of abusive images and their prohibition.

TL;DR: This review examines prior research on the association of three parenting behaviors (parental warmth, hostility, and control) with child externalizing versus internalizing problems and revealed relatively little evidence for the specificity of parenting and child Externalizing behaviors in the general parenting literature or in the family context of parent depression.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the effects of a variety of factors on participants' judgments of hypothetical depictions of rape within an experimental setting, focusing on attribution of responsibility or fault to the victim or attacker and related judgments.

TL;DR: Results of this review suggest that PVV is a serious problem for health care staff in general hospitals, especially those working in medical and surgical units, and that workplace characteristics and the interaction between patients and staff are important contextual factors that can contribute to the development of violent incidents.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors reviewed empirical literature on intimate partner violence (IPV) in China within the past 20 years to understand the magnitude and nature of the problem, and found that women were at increased risk of IPV when they and/or their partners were of low education and socio-economic status, grew up in rural areas, and exhibited behavior problems of smoking, alcoholism, and illicit drug use.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of women's self-defense training extend considerably beyond this objective, including physical, psychological, and behavioral impacts, and suggestions for the development of future self defense training programs are presented, along with a discussion of implications for future research evaluating women self defense programs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize and update the available literature examining FCSO's socio-demographic features, available typological distinctions, and research investigating the potential treatment needs of FCSOs.

TL;DR: The importance of designing effective interventions, despite the lack currently available, is described, and the potential areas of future research are suggested, including issues surrounding cognitive impairment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use an evolutionary perspective to examine intimate partner violence, focusing on men's violence against women, and they argue that the recurring adaptive problem of paternity uncertainty plays a central role in domestic violence, and physical violence functions to punish and deter female sexual infidelity.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of cognitive processes and distortions common in violent offenders may affect and hamper rehabilitation readiness, and methods for remediation of cognitive factors that diminish readiness, including motivational interviewing, are discussed.

TL;DR: A review of the literature concerning empathy and adolescent sexual offenders is provided in this article, where the authors make recommendations for future research based on this assessment and make use of the assessment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate theoretical positions concerning the causes of violence among human societies using data from small-scale, radically non-western societies and archaeological evidence from early hominids.

TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that intoxication disrupts social interactions between individuals, and that the emergence of affiliative behavior is a product of individual level interactions and that intoxication increases individuals levels of stress and therefore aggression.

TL;DR: The present paper critically examines the empirical literature on MA use and its relation to violence, and methodological issues and challenges are discussed and suggestions for future research are provided.

TL;DR: Using the Social Learning Theory (SLT) of Aggression as a theoretical framework, the authors examined the increasing prevalence of aggression in women in society and popular culture and made recommendations for both prevention and treatment interventions, as well as suggestions for future research.

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical and empirical examination of automatic and deliberative processes in information processing and decision-making may contribute to our understanding of aggressive behavior in a context in which aggressive behavior has been predominantly predicted by self-reports.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the literature on profiling homicide offenders with regard to its underlying assumptions of offender consistency and specificity and found that only moderate evidence for the behavioral consistency hypothesis was found, but did support the hypothesis of stable relationships between offense behaviors and offender characteristics (specificity hypothesis).

TL;DR: Hare, R. D. et al. as mentioned in this paper reviewed the literature, particularly the relevance of antisocial behavior to the core personality structure of the psychopath, and discussed the limitations of the psychopathy construct and needed future research and the policy implications of such research.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the complementarity of proximate and ultimate levels of analysis when studying men's sexual coercion of their intimate partners and highlight the importance of integrating multiple levels of analyses.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that the effectiveness of many offender rehabilitation programs may be further enhanced by the inclusion of interventions that build on existing motivation to change, and propose that the emphasis on positive personal change implicit in therapies designed to promote forgiveness may hold some promise.

TL;DR: An exploration of the contexts of ancestrally recurrent conflicts for these resources and how the process of selection operates to shape adaptive strategies in individuals to best competitors can help to elucidate the nature of cognitive and behavioral adaptations that are hypothesized to produce criminal behaviors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a basic overview of current risk assessment procedure in the absence of the polygraph, and then investigate studies that use polygraph to enhance sexual offenders' risk assessments, concluding that there is reasonable evidence supporting polygraph use in some areas of risk assessment.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis of 45 studies evaluating prevention programs for ODD and/or conduct disorders was conducted to determine the extent to which programs were effective at least 6 months after the end of the intervention.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss how the assumptions underpinning restorative justice practices impact on offenders' human rights, and their points of convergence and divergence, concluding that while these assumptions can protect certain offender rights, they may violate others.