Female Prisoners Motivations of Violent Crimes: Defensive or Aggressive

qualitative analysis of violent crimes committed by women: contexts and motivations

while men’s violence is assessed within their social life, women’s violence is attributed to personal factors, such as mental stress, aggression and/or womanish nervousness, regardless of social factors. unlike such a common interpretation that tries to associate violence of women with interpretations of stereotypes and individual, in this article, violence of women will be explained in terms o...

Modeling of Human Behavior in Violent Crimes

Traditionally, criminologists have studied criminal behavior using methods that derive from a variety of scientific disciplines, such as, psychology, sociology, medicine, and psychiatry. Currently, there exist numerous schools of thought that each have developed a distinct theoretical paradigm for analyzing criminal behavior. Most of them attribute the causes of any given crime to the interacti...

Reducing Violent Crimes and Intentional Injuries

Since the mid-1980’s, the rise in serious urban violence has had at least two effects. First, it has threatened the lives of urban residents, especially youths, and the social and economic fabric of the communities in which they live. Second, it has aggravated public doubts about the ability of government to maintain the quality of urban life. More specifically, these doubts have raised questio...

Carbachol-induced agonistic behavior in cats: aggressive or defensive response.

The effects of intrahypothalamic carbachol microinjections were investigated in unprovoked cats. The carbachol evoked mydriasis, attention, vocalization, and piloerection, i.e. features of a typical defense were usually concomitant in evoked response, while the clear-cut aggressive or escape patterns appeared only once. No basic differences were observed in the set of manifestations induced by ...

Personality and social attitude correlates of violent prisoners.