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This section summarizes Meloy’s model and presents the individual/psychological components, the social/environmental components, the biological components, and other miscellaneous factors that contribute to someone being violent.
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Hoffer, T., Hargreaves-Cormany, H., Muirhead, Y., Meloy, J.R. (2018). Meloy’s Biopsychosocial Model of Violence. In: Violence in Animal Cruelty Offenders. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91038-3_6
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