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- Title
Introduction to impulsive aggression.
- Authors
Felthous, Alan R.; Felthous, A R
- Abstract
Impulsive aggression can amount to criminal behavior, or, for that matter, tortuous conduct with remedies in the civil law. In criminal law, the impulsivity of an aggressive act has been used to negate or diminish criminal culpability. A countervailing trend would not exculpate a defendant, whose only defense is diminished self-control. Impulsive aggression has been used to spare those convicted of a capital offense from the death penalty. To the extent that impulsivity is due to a disorder of dyscontrol, it is argued that the offender was incapable of self-restraint. Violence and aggression are not uncommon themes in the behavioral science literature. In recent years, increasing scientific attention has been given to the phenomenon of impulsive aggression. Scientific developments that improve understanding of impulsive aggression, warrant the attention of those who study the broad realm of behavior and the law.
- Subjects
IMPULSIVE personality; CRIMINAL behavior; CIVIL law; AGGRESSION (Psychology); PERSONALITY disorders; CRIMINAL psychology
- Publication
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 1998, Vol 16, Issue 3, p281
- ISSN
0735-3936
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/(SICI)1099-0798(199822)16:3<281::AID-BSL310>3.0.CO;2-2