PSYC39H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Mental Health Professional, Spree, Random Assignment
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Rates of victimization same for women and men, women-more sexual. Hostile aggression impulsive reaction to real or perceived threat. Instrumental aggression premeditated and aimed at achieving a secondary goal (money: instrumental aggression rating measure. Young men violence as means to increase status, resources, mating; violent behaviour limited to adolescence and young adulthood. Competitively disadvantaged men ability to compete in prosocial ways is limited; life-course persistent. Psychopaths choose short-term high-risk approach; life- course persistent. Lower recidivism rates among treated vs untreated offenders. Programs following general principle of effective corrections (risk, need, responsivity) are more effective. But research methodology leaves results open to alternative interpretations. Exceptionally rare in canada, decreasing since 1970s. Males more likely to commit and be victims of homicide. Spree murder murders occur at two or more locations (person kills someone, runs, sees persons associate kills them, runs, sees police, kills) Serial murder no cooling off period and murders in diff locations.
