Severity and frequency of reactive and instrumental violent offending: divergent validity of subtypes of violence in an adult forensic sample

A common practice in forensic research is to distinguish between reactive and instrumental violence, but recent critics have asserted that these subtypes of violence are not orthogonal and that this distinction has outlived its usefulness. To test the validity of the reactive?instrumental distinctio...

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Authors: Tapscott, Jennifer L. (Author) ; Hancock, Megan (Author) ; Hoaken, Peter N. S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2012
In: Criminal justice and behavior
Year: 2012, Volume: 39, Issue: 2, Pages: 202-219
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
frequency of offending
General theory of crime
instrumental and reactive violence
offender specialization
severity of violence
violent offender heterogeneity