Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research: Volume 3 Issue 3

Elucidating the treatment needs of gang‐affiliated youth offenders

Chi Meng Chu, Michael Daffern, Stuart D.M. Thomas, Jia Ying Lim

Gang affiliation is strongly associated with youth crime. Although gang prevention, intervention and suppression programmes have been used to reduce affiliation and manage youth…

Developing an empirical classification of violent offences for use in the prediction of recidivism in England and Wales

Philip Howard, Louise Dixon

The classification of criminal acts as violent or nonviolent should be a keystone of actuarial predictors of violent recidivism, as it affects their outcome measure and scoring of…

Therapeutic dilemmas and human rights violations: the experience of therapists working under extreme traumatization in Chile

Arturo Roizblatt, Niels Biederman, Jac Brown

This paper seeks to focus on the reflections of therapists who were working professionally in Chile during the time of human right violations in an attempt to inform and to…

Direct paternal care and aggression: an empirical exploration using the Standard Cross‐Cultural Sample

Sasha Johnson‐Freyd

The rates of direct paternal care vary greatly across human cultures and primate species. Prior research reveals important hormonal differences between average fathers and…

Violent behavior and positive parenting

Richard L. Davis

The majority of child, sibling, dating, intimate partner, spousal and elder abuse and bullying interventions have as a primary goal the cessation of physical assaults. However…

Editorial

Nicola Graham-Kevan, Jane L. Ireland, Michelle Davies, Douglas P. Fry