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What are the readings?

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Piquero (2000)
Farrington (1996)

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What are the key points from Piquero 2000?

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Focus on nature of offending careers + frequency
Most offenders do not specialise rather engage with a range of crimes
The more frequently individuals offend, the more likely they are to engage in specialized criminal behavior, but this is not universally true.
Violence is a part of the offending career but is not the pirmary source of criminality
Piquero identifies distinct offending trajectories, with some individuals engaging in crime at a high frequency but with limited specialization, while others may engage in crime less frequently but specialize in certain violent or non-violent offenses.

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What are the implications and contributions fron Piquero?

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Intervention efforts should be tailored based on whether an offender is likely to specialise in violent crime or whether they are more likely to engage in a broader range of offences
Understanding the patterns of offending can aid in the development of prevention and intervention strategies that are more effective at targeting specific types of offenders.

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What are the key points from Farrington (1996)

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Focus on male violence
Violence is more prevalent in adolescence, particularly among those between the ages of 12 and 18

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What are the policy interventions from Farrington?

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Improving family functioning
Enhancing school system
Community engagement
Early prevention programmes

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What is strain theory (Farrington)?

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Youth violence may result from the frustration or strain caused by an inability to achieve socially accepted goals, particularly in environments where opportunities are limited

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What is control theory? (Farrington)

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This theory emphasises the importance of social bonds and self-control in preventing violence. Weak or broken bonds with society, such as poor family attachment or school disengagement, can lead to violent behaviour

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What is violence?

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Behaviour that is intended to cause and/or actually causes psychological or physical injury.

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What are the sub definitions of violence?

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Expressive versus Instrumental
Proactive versus Reactive Aggression
Most aggressive behaviour has elements of both

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What are violent offences defined by criminal law?

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Homicide, rape, robbery, and assault.

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How is assault divided?

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Into serious (aggravated US; wounding UK) and less serious (simple US; common UK

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Who looked at violence?

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ONS

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What are the statistics for violence?

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2.1 million instances of violence against the person offences in the year ending March 2022, an increase of 18% from 1.8 million in the year ending March 2021

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Violence without injury?

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39%

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Violence with injury?

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27%

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Stalking and harassment?

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34%

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Death or serious injury?

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0.04%

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When was the peak in violence for the CSEW from the ONS?

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Between 1993 and 1999

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Who spoke about the frustration aggression hypothesis?

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Berkowitz

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What is the FAH?

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Hostile aggression was activated by unpleasant events such as frustration and insults.
Relationship was mediated by:
Fear of punishment.
Previous experience.
Availability of object of frustration.

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Who made the evolutionary theory for aggression?

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Daly & Wilson 1988

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What is the evolutionary theory?

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Violence is seen as a behavior that may have evolved to increase survival and reproductive success. Early humans may have used aggression to defend resources, protect kin, or secure mates.

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Who made the SLT for aggression?

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Bandura

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What is the SLT?

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Violence is learned through observation and imitation of others, particularly influential figures like family members, peers, or media. If aggressive behaviour is rewarded or reinforced (e.g., gaining respect, power, or status), individuals are more likely to adopt and repeat violent actions. SLT suggests that exposure to violent models increases the likelihood of engaging in violence

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What is social info processing and who theorised?
Crick & Dodge 1994 Make use of schemas and scripts.
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What happens when an individual faces with social problem with social information processing?
Evaluates and interprets situational cues, Searches memory for guides to behaviour, Evaluates and decided on the best behaviour, Enacts the response.
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What are the statistics with gender and violence?
Males more likely to commit violence than females. Official offending: about 5.8 to 1 for violence and 9.3 to 1 for robbery. Self-Report offending: 9% of males and 4% of females.
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What are the reasons for violence and gender?
Females treated more leniently by CJS. Ceiling effect of self-reports. Males commit more serious offences. Females not truthful about offending?
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Who spoke about violence and ethnicity?
Loeber et al
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What did Loeber et al say?
There is overwhelming evidence that the association between African American ethnicity and violence could be accounted for by the presence of several other non-ethnic factors that were associated with ethnicity
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Who looked at the risk factors associated with youth violence?
Denno 1990
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What are the risk factors for youth violence?
Hyperactivity-impulsiveness, deceitful interpersonal style, and low intelligence/low school attainment
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Who looked at biological factors?
Caspi et al (2002) Barnes et al (2022)
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What did Caspi et al (2002) say?
Genetic suspectibility, MAO-A gene
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What did Barnes et al find?
Low heart rate predicted convictions for violence up to 61
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Who looked at traits?
Jolliffe & Farrington 2004
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What did Jolliffe & Farrington 2004 find?
Low empathy + impulsiveness are associated with violence
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What did Farrington 1998 find?
Low school success/low intelligence Child maltreatment
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Who looked at family factors?
Farrington (1998)
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What are the family factors associated with violence?
Poor parental supervision Parental conflict Parents convicted (particularly for violence) Less parental affection
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Who looked at cognitive factors?
Farrington (1998)
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What did Farrington (1998) find with cognitive factors?
Some young people develop distorted thinking patterns, such as justifying or minimizing violence, which increases the risk of violent behavior.
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Who looked at peer factors
Farrington (1998)
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What are the peer factors?
Peer delinquency: Association with delinquent peers is a strong predictor of youth violence, as peer influence can reinforce aggressive behavior and criminal activity. Peer rejection: Youth who are rejected or excluded by their peers may develop feelings of anger or resentment, contributing to violent behaviour.
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Who looked at school and community factors?
School performance: Poor academic achievement and school failure increase the risk of engaging in violent behavior. School disengagement or truancy is often correlated with violent behavior. Neighborhood environment: Living in disadvantaged or high-crime neighborhoods is a significant environmental factor linked to increased youth violence. Exposure to violence in the community can normalize aggressive behavior. Social disorganization: Communities with high levels of social disorganization, such as a lack of social cohesion, weak institutions, and poverty, tend to have higher rates of youth violence.
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What are the other social factors associated with violence?
Low socioeconomic status Deprived neighbourhoods Experience of victimisation Gang involvement
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What are the situational factors?
Being drunk, bored, angry Routine activity theory
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What is RAT?
People who have highest potential for violence are also more often in situations that are conductive to violence.
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Who looked at risk factors in context?
Lyman et al (2000) Zimmerman et al (2015)
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What did Lyman et al (2000) look at?
Examining impulsivity in different neighbourhood contexts
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What did Lyman et al (2000) find?
The effect of impulsivity on juvenile offending was greater in poorer neighbourhoods Non-impulsive boys in poor neighbourhoods were at no greater risk than non-impulsive boys in better off neighbourhoods.
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What did Zimmerman et al (2015) find?
They found that low self-control was related to violence only in neighbourhoods that had low morality Committing each of the seven acts in the projected offending scale would be morally acceptable to them.
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Violence + frequency?
Violent offenders tend to be frequent offenders. If offenders specialise in violence, each violent offender should commit more violent offences (on average) than expected. Violent offenders and nonviolent frequent offenders were virtually identical in childhood, adolescent and adult features. Not clear that violent offenders are different from frequent or persistent offenders.
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Who looked at males convicted of violence?
Farrington (1991)
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What did Farrington (1991) find with men convicted of violence?
Males who were convicted of violence at ages 10–32 tended to be frequent offenders, averaging seven convictions each
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What did they find from Farrington's analysis?
Important childhood risk factors
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Who looked at the distinction with individual fights?
Farrington 2019
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What is the distinction with individual fights?
Where a male was usually provoked, got angry, and started the fight and group fights Where a male often went to the help of a friend, and which were more likely to involve weapons, injuries and police intervention.
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Who did the Pittsburgh Youth Study?
Farrington et al
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What did the PYS find?
Harsh physical punishment predicted violence for Caucasians but not for African Americans
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Who explained the reason for the PYS?
Deater-Deckard et al 1996
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What did Deater-Deckard et al say for PYS?
Physical discipline is associated with neglect and coldness in Caucasian families but with concern and warmth in African American families.
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Who looked at child rearing?
Farrington (2015)
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What did Farrington (2015) find with child rearing?
A number of child rearing and parental characteristics have also been associated with the later violence, as are coming from a disrupted home and living in a single-parent female headed household
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Who looked at buffering protective factors?
Hall et al (2012)
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What did Hall et al (2012) find?
Promotive factors for violence, could include both a variable that interacts with a risk factor to nullify its effect and also a variable that predicts a low probability of offending amongst a high-risk group
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Who did a longitudinal study for violence?
Werner & Smith (1992)
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What did Werner & Smith (1992) do?
Study on all children born in 1955 on a Hawaiian island from the perinatal period to age 30 years
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What did Werner & Smith find from the longitudinal?
Those children who faced challenging individual, family, and environmental conditions did not develop serious learning or behavioral problems were more likely to be first born, active and affectionate infants from smaller cohesive families.

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