The Psychology of Interpersonal Violence.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Interpersonal Violence -- Psychological Accounts of Interpersonal Violence -- Gender -- Development of Violent Behaviour -- Families -- Violent Places -- Bystanders -- Crowds and crowding -- Temperature -- Combinations of environmental variables -- Weapons -- The Violent Act: The Psychology of the Aggressor -- Social cognition -- Attributions -- Emotion -- Alcohol and violent crime -- Mental health -- Interpersonal Violence -- Luckenbill's approach -- After Luckenbill -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 "Everyday" Violence -- Bullying -- Bullying at School -- School bullies -- The psychology of the bully -- Bullying schools -- Bullying in the Workplace -- Individual -- Group -- Organisation -- Society -- Cyberbullying -- Predicting cyberbullying -- The Effects of Bullying -- Children -- Workplace -- Aggressive Driving -- Violence Towards Animals -- Cruelty to animals -- Animals in sport -- Hunting -- Understanding cruelty to animals -- From animals to people? -- Corporal Punishment of Children -- Why is it thought acceptable to hit children? -- The child's view -- Developmental help or hindrance? -- Moral defensibility? -- Much ado about not very much? -- Violence as Entertainment -- Sporting Violence -- The violence is the sport -- Boxing -- Violence within sport -- Violence surrounding sport -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Violence at Home -- Physical Child Abuse -- Antecedents to physical child abuse -- Consequences of physical child abuse -- Child-to-Parent Violence -- Intimate Partner Violence -- Antecedents to intimate partner violence -- Consequences of intimate partner violence -- Effects of intimate partner violence on children -- Violence Against Elder Adults -- Elder abuse within the family -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Criminal Violence.

Non-Lethal Violent Assault -- Violence in a public place -- Violence in the workplace -- Hate Crimes -- Hate crime statistics -- Perpetrators and victims of hate crime -- Kidnapping and Abduction -- Kidnapping -- Child abduction -- Arson -- Juvenile firesetters -- Adult arsonists -- Mentally disordered firesetters -- Understanding Arson -- Taking Another Person's Life -- Number of homicides -- Homicide: The Details -- Mass murderers -- Spree murderers -- Serial murderers -- Murder followed by suicide -- Who Kills and Why? -- Interpersonal conflict -- Homicide with another crime -- Domestic homicide -- Accident homicide -- Commonalities across homicide types -- Juvenile perpetrators -- Alcohol -- Mental illness -- Weapons -- Homicide Recidivism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Sexual Violence -- Legal Definition -- Criminal Statistics for Sex Offending -- Official figures -- Sexual Offences Against Children -- Poly-victimisation -- Child sexual abuse and the Internet -- Consequences of child sexual abuse -- Sexual Offending Against Adults -- Stalking -- Consequences of stalking -- Rape -- Sexual homicide -- The Sex Offender -- Developmental factors -- Stalkers -- Sex Offenders Against Children -- Typologies -- Cognitive processes -- Understanding sex offences against children -- Finkelhor's Precondition Model -- Sexual Offences Against Women -- Cognitive distortions -- Implicit theories -- Understanding sex offences against women -- "Crossover" Offenders -- Female Sex Offenders -- Offence pathway -- Sex Offender Recidivism -- Factors associated with recidivism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Where To Next? -- Binding Current Theories -- Towards New Theories -- Post-traumatic Stress -- What is post-traumatic stress? -- The association between violence and post-traumatic stress -- How does post-traumatic stress relate to interpersonal violence? -- Conclusion.

References -- Index -- EULA.

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