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Behavioral Perspectives on Violent Behavior

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Handbook of Psychological Approaches with Violent Offenders

Part of the book series: The Plenum Series in Crime and Justice ((PSIC))

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In 1994, the most recent year for which we had official police statistics, 23,310 Americans were murdered, 102,100 were raped, 618, 820 were robbed, and 1,119,950 were assaulted by someone using a weapon (Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI], 1995). These figures underestimate the extent of violent crime in America because many crimes are never reported to the police, particularly those involving intrafamily violence. Although the rate of violent crime in the United States has flattened or, for some crimes, even declined in the 1990s, most Americans continue to list the fear of violent crime as one of their most important concerns.

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Nietzel, M.T., Hasemann, D.M., Lynam, D.R. (1999). Behavioral Perspectives on Violent Behavior. In: Van Hasselt, V.B., Hersen, M. (eds) Handbook of Psychological Approaches with Violent Offenders. The Plenum Series in Crime and Justice. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4845-4_3

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