CRIM 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Impulsivity, Sensation Seeking, Operant Conditioning
11 Dec 2015
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Aggression has harm to others as its goal. Violence is any aggression were extreme harm is the goal. Vitacco et al. scale scores hostile and instrumental aggression on a continuum. Are planning, goal-oriented, unprovoked acts that are free of anger and directed at a stranger victim always instrumental. Victims and offenders are more likely to be single. Victim and offered typically know one another. Rates of victimization similar across gender, until accounting for type of violence. Routine activities are important (going out at night, living in urban areas) Only 25% of victims of violence report physical injury. All frequent violent offenders are also frequent general offenders. Risk factors that explain general offending also explain violent offending and therefore specific theories of violence are not needed. Primarily interested in comparing violent and non-violent offenders across criminal career parameters (e. g. , david farrington) Not all offenders engage in violence and therefore there must be something special about violent offenders.
