Handbook on the Psychology of Violence de Hugh R. Cunningham

Handbook on the Psychology of Violence

Hugh R. Cunningham

Wade F. Berry

This book presents current research in the study of the psychology of violence. Topics discussed in this compilation include the effect of adolescents' attitudes towards violence and pro-sociability; intimate partner violence and substance abuse; the roles of community social workers in dealing with violent acts of terrorism; the causes of violence towards animals; targeting interventions for children and violence; the psychology of hatred and violence and sexual homicide offenders and their criminal careers.

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Preface; Assessment of the Program Taking Steps towards Peace": Effect on Adolescents' Attitudes towards Violence & Prosociability; Intimate Partner Violence & Substance Abuse: Contextualizing Sociocultural Complexities; Examining Dating Violence from the Relational Context; Over-Researched & Under-Theorized: Re-Imagining the Concept of Gender for Intimate Partner Violence Theory & Research; Psychology of Hatred & Violence: Definition, Explanatory Theories, Cognitive-Emotional Factors, & Prevention Strategies; Psychological Violence against Women by Intimate Partners: The Use of Children to Victimize Mothers; A Cross Sectional Study of Intimate Partner Violence in Emerging Adulthood; Sexual Homicide Offenders & Their Criminal Careers: An Exploratory Empirical Examination; Intimate Partner Violence & Child Maltreatment: An International Perspective on Child & Family Violence; The Developmental Relation between Moral Disengagement & Aggregation with Deviant Peer in Understanding Adolescents Violent Behavior; Male Victims in Heterosexual Intimate Partner Violence: A Framework Explaining Help-Seeking Reluctance; The Roles of Community Social Workers in Dealing with Violent Acts of Terrorism: Three Modes of Intervention; The Causes of Violence towards Animals: A Review; Motowns Violence in My ED; Children & Violence: Targeting Interventions; Index.