具体描述
From a team of leading experts comes a comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of the most current research including the complex issue of violence and violent behavior. The handbook examines a range of theoretical, policy, and research issues and provides a comprehensive overview of aggressive and violent behavior. The breadth of coverage is impressive, ranging from research on biological factors related to violence and behavior-genetics to research on terrrorism and the impact of violence in different cultures. The authors examine violence from international cross-cultural perspectives, with chapters that examine both quantitative and qualitative research. They also look at violence at multiple levels: individual, family, neighborhood, cultural, and across multiple perspectives and systems, including treatment, justice, education, and public health.
作者简介
目录信息
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Alexander T. Vazsonyi, Daniel J. Flannery, and Irwin D. Waldman
p a r t i: g e n e r a l p e r s p e c t i v e s
1 Understanding Violence
Patrick H. Tolan
2 Origins of Violent Behavior over the Life Span
David P. Farrington
3 A Review of Research on the Taxonomy of Life-Course Persistent
Versus Adolescence-Limited Antisocial Behavior
Terrie E. Moffitt
p a r t ii: b i o l o g i c a l b a s e s o f v i o l e n c e
4 Behavior-Genetics of Criminality and Aggression
Soo Hyun Rhee and Irwin D. Waldman
5 The Genetics of Aggression in Mice
Stephen C. Maxson and Andrew Canastar
6 The Psychophysiology of Aggression: Autonomic, Electrocortical,
and Neuro-Imaging Findings
Christopher J. Patrick and Edelyn Verona
7 Biosocial Bases of Violence
Angela Scarpa and Adrian Raine
8 Neurobiology of Impulsive Aggression: Focus on Serotonin and the
Orbitofrontal Cortex
Royce Lee and Emil F. Coccaro
9 The Neuropsychology of Violence
Jean R. S´ eguin, Patrick Sylvers, and Scott O. Lilienfeld
10 The Interaction of Nature and Nurture in Antisocial Behavior
Kenneth A. Dodge and Michelle R. Sherrill
p a r t iii: i n d i v i d u a l f a c t o r s a n d v i o l e n c e
11 Relational Aggression and Gender: An Overview
Nicki R. Crick, Jamie M. Ostrov, and Yoshito Kawabata
12 Personality Dispositions and the Development of Violence and Conduct
Problems
Benjamin B. Lahey and Irwin D. Waldman
13 Personality and Violence: The Unifying Role of Structural Models of Personality
Daniel M. Blonigen and Robert F. Krueger
14 Exposure to Violence, Mental Health, and Violent Behavior
Daniel J. Flannery, Mark I. Singer, Manfred van Dulmen, Jeff M. Kretschmar,
and Lara M. Belliston
15 Social-Cognitive Processes in the Development of Antisocial and Violent
Behavior
Gregory S. Pettit and Jacquelyn Mize
16 School Violence
Gary D. Gottfredson and Denise C. Gottfredson
p a r t iv: i n t e r p e r s o n a l f a c t o r s a n d v i o l e n t b e h a v i o r
17 Peers and Violence: A Two-Sided Developmental Perspective
Frank Vitaro, Michel Boivin, and Richard E. Tremblay
18 Youth Gangs and Violent Behavior
Scott H. Decker
19 Family Violence
Richard J. Gelles
20 Youth Violence Across Ethnic and National Groups: Comparisons of Rates
and Developmental Processes
Alexander T. Vazsonyi, Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo, and Li Huang
21 Adolescent Dating Abuse Perpetration: A Review of Findings, Methodological
Limitations, and Suggestions for Future Research
Vangie A. Foshee and Rebecca A. Matthew
22 Social Networks and Violent Behavior
Dorothy L. Espelage, Stanley Wasserman, and Mark S. Fleisher
23 Public Health and Violence: Moving Forward in a Global Context
Linda L. Dahlberg
24 Cross-National Research on Violent Victimization
Johan van Wilsem
25 Violent Juvenile Delinquency: Changes, Consequences, and Implications
James C. Howell and Megan Q. Howell
26 Strain Theory and Violent Behavior
Robert S. Agnew
p a r t v: c o n t e x t u a l f a c t o r s a n d v i o l e n t b e h a v i o r
27 Self-Control Theory and Criminal Violence
Michael R. Gottfredson
28 Why Observing Violence Increases the Risk of Violent Behavior
by the Observer
L. Rowell Huesmann and Lucyna Kirwil
29 Violence and Culture in the United States
Mark Warr
30 Terrorism as a Form of Violence
Kevin J. Strom and Cynthia Irvin
31 Therapeutic Treatment Approaches to Violent Behavior
Richard E. Heyman and Amy M. Smith Slep
32 Psychopharmacology of Violence
Markus J. P. Kruesi
33 Social Learning and Violent Behavior
Gary F. Jensen
34 Substance Use and Violent Behavior
Jeff M. Kretschmar and Daniel J. Flannery
35 Poverty/Socioeconomic Status and Exposure to Violence in the Lives
of Children and Adolescents
Holly Foster, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Anne Martin
36 Social Contagion of Violence
Jeffrey Fagan, Deanna L. Wilkinson, and Garth Davies
p a r t vi: m e t h o d s f o r s t u d y i n g v i o l e n t b e h a v i o r
37 Studying Aggression with Structural Equation Modeling
Noel A. Card and Todd D. Little
38 Overview of a Semi-Parametric, Group-Based Approach for Analyzing
Trajectories of Development
Daniel S. Nagin
39 Relocating Violence: Practice and Power in an Emerging Field
of Qualitative Research
Bowen Paulle
p a r t vii: l o o k i n g t o w a r d t h e f u t u r e
40 Violent Behavior and the Science of Prevention
Albert D. Farrell and Monique Vulin-Reynolds
41 New Directions in Research on Violence: Bridging Science, Practice, and Policy
Daniel J. Flannery, Alexander T. Vazsonyi, and Irwin D. Waldman
Subject Index
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