The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression

A comprehensive, cross-disciplinary, and in-depth study of violent behavior and aggression across the lifespan of human development.

Alexander T. Vazsonyi (Edited by), Daniel J. Flannery (Edited by), Matt DeLisi (Edited by)

9781107180437, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 26 July 2018

822 pages, 19 b/w illus. 14 tables
25.4 x 17.9 x 4 cm, 1.75 kg

'The second edition gets better and better! This authoritative new violence handbook bears the intellectual stamp of its three world-renowned editors. It is uniquely multidisciplinary. Chapters cover the full range: from the very best etiological research on self-regulation, neuroscience, genetics, and bio-social criminology, to the very best research on practice and policy. Each and every chapter is easy to read, and all pack a big knowledge punch. This new Handbook is a priceless resource for scientists, students, practitioners, and anyone really who needs to be fully informed about violence.' Terrie E. Moffitt, Nannerl O. Keohane University Professor, Duke University, North Carolina, Professor of Social Behaviour and Development, Institute of Psychiatry London and Associate Director, University of Otago, New Zealand

The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression presents the current state of knowledge related to the study of violent behaviors and aggression. An important extension of the first Handbook published ten years ago, the second edition maintains a distinctly cross-disciplinary focus by representing the newest scholarship and insights from behavior genetics, cross-cultural comparative psychology/criminology, evolutionary psychology, criminal justice, criminology, human development, molecular genetics, neurosciences, psychology, prevention and intervention sciences, psychiatry, psychopharmacology, public health, and sociology. The Handbook is divided into introductory and overview chapters on the study of violent behavior and aggression, followed by chapters on biosocial bases, individual and interpersonal factors, contextual factors, and prevention and intervention work and policy implications. It is an essential resource for researchers, scholars, and graduate students across social and behavioral science disciplines interested in the etiology, intervention, and prevention of violent behavior and aggression.

Part I. Introduction and Overview: 1. Origins of violent behavior over the life span
2. Longitudinal study of personality and social development: insights about aggression after 5 decades
3. A life course model for the development of intimate partner violence
4. The dark violence hybrid: the cross-cultural validation of an integrative model
Part II. Biosocial Foundations of Violence and Aggression: 5. The behavioral genetics of aggression and violent behaviour
6. Neuroimaging evidence of violence and aggression
7. Biosocial bases of aggression and antisocial behavior
 8. The Neuropsychology of violence
 9. The interaction of nature and nurture in antisocial behavior
 10. The neurobiology of bullying victimization
11. Molecular genetics of aggression and violent crime
12. Biosocial foundations of drug abuse and violent delinquency
 13. Personality and aggression: a general trait perspective
Part III. Individual and Interpersonal Factors for Violence and Aggression: 14. Applying empirically-based trait models to an understanding of personality and violence
15. Social-cognitive processes in the development of antisocial and violent behavior
16: Violent juvenile offenders: a psychiatric and mental health perspective
17. Self-control theory and criminal violence
 18. Peers and aggression: from description to prevention
 19. Developmental processes of resilience and risk for aggression and conduct problems
20. Child abuse and neglect
21. The role of gender in violent and aggressive behaviors
 22. Lessons learned: serial sex offenders identified from backlogged sexual assault kits (SAKs)
 23. Research on social structure and cross-national homicide rates
 24. Preventing violent crimes by reducing wrongful convictions
 25. Strain theory and violent behavior
26. On cumulative childhood traumatic exposure and violence/aggression: the implications of adverse childhood experiences (ACE)
Part IV. Contextual Factors for Violence and Aggression: 27. Youth gangs and violent behavior
 28. Social networks and violence
 29: The contagion of violence
 30. School violence
 31. Violence and culture in the United States
 32. Violence prevention in a global context: progress and priorities for moving forward
 33. Terrorism as a form of violence
34. Psychopharmacology of violence
35. Individual, family, neighborhood and regional poverty/socioeconomic status and exposure to violence in the lives of children and adolescents: considering the Global North and South
36. Firearms and violence
 Part V. Looking toward the Future: 37. The interrelationship of self-control and violent behavior: pathways and policies
 38. The new frontier: leveraging innovative technologies to prevent bullying
39. Neural substrates of youth and adult antisocial behavior
 40. Research designs and methods for evaluating and refining interventions for youth violence prevention
 41. New directions in research on violence: bridging science, practice, and policy.

Subject Areas: The self, ego, identity, personality [JMS], Behavioural theory [Behaviourism JMAL], Psychology [JM]