The Wiley Handbook of Violence and Aggression is a landmark resource that explores the broad scope of violence and aggression with contributions from an international panel of experts in the field. Filled with the most recent research and developments, this important text contains information on the biology of aggression and violence, developmental pathways, theoretical advances, the assessment, prevention and treatment of individuals, clinical treatments that target special populations, and a wide-range of societal interventions.

Table of Contents

• Volume I: Definition, Conception, and Development
• Part I History, Definition, and Diagnostic Issues
• Aggression and Violence: Definitions and Distinctions
• Cultural Norms and Definitions of Violence
• Legal Definitions of Violence and Aggression
• The Development of Aggression from Early Childhood to Adulthood
• Gender Differences in Violence and Aggression
• Online Misogyny Targeting Feminist Activism: Anita Sarkeesian and Gamergate
• Cross-Cultural Differences in Aggression
• Violence in the Family
• Mass Killing
• Psychiatric Diagnosis and Violence: Description and Mechanisms
• Psychopathy, Violence, and Aggression
• Introduction to Sexual Violence
• Hate Crime
• Violence and Moral Philosophy
• Part II Biology
• The Evolution of Human Violence and Aggression: The Contribution of Peace Ethology
• Genetics of Aggression in Nonhuman Animals
• Psychophysiology of Violence and Aggression
• Neuroanatomy of Violence and Aggression
• The Role of Neurotransmitters in Violence and Aggression
• Testosterone and Human Aggression
• Animal Models of Aggression and Violence
• Interplay between Genetic and Environmental Influences on the Development of Aggressive–Antisocial Behavior during Childhood and Adolescence
• Part III Theoretical Accounts
• Developmental Pathways to Aggression and Violence
• Masculinities, Aggression, and Violence
• Protective Factors Against Crime and Violence in Adolesence
• Cognitive–Behavioral Factors and Anger in the Occurrence of Aggression and Violence
• The Development of Aggression and Violence Over the Life Span
• Addressing Children's Disruptive Behavior Problems: A 30-Year Journey With Stop Now And Plan (SNAP)
• Does Alcohol Cause Violence and Aggression?
• Do Drugs Cause Violence?
• Does Poverty Cause Violence?
• Do Group Processes Cause Violence and Aggression?
• Displaced Aggression Is Alive and Well
• Media, Violence, Aggression, and Antisocial Behavior: Is the Link Causal?
• Humor and Violence
• Is the Link Between Games and Aggression More About the Player, Less About the Game?
• The General Aggression Model and Its Application to Violent Offender Assessment and Treatment
• On Automatic As Well As Controlled Psychological Processes in Aggression, From the Cognitive Neoassociation Perspective
• Social Learning Theory and the Development of Aggression
• Frustration–Aggression Theory
• Behavioral Explanations of Aggression and Violence
• Psychoanalytic Concepts of Violence and Aggression
• Social–Psychological Explanations of Aggression and Violence
• Violence and Aggression in Socially Disorganized Neighborhoods
• Race and Gender Stereotypes and Violence and Aggression
• Forgetting Everything We Think We Know: High Self-Esteem and Violence
• Strain Theory, Violence, and Aggression
• Theories of Political Violence
• Volume II: Assessment, Prevention, and Treatment of Individuals
• Part IV Assessment of Individuals
• Principles and Foundations of Psychological Assessment
• Dyadic Conceptualization, Measurement, and Analysis of Family Violence
• Assessment of Callous and Related Traits
• Physiological Measurement and Assessment
• Systematic Screening for Challenging Behaviors in Tiered Support Systems
• Psychiatric Assessment of Violence
• Psychoanalytic Assessment of Violence
• Psychopathy and Violence
• Risk Assessment, Violence, and Aggression
• Violence in Individuals with Major Psychiatric Disorders: Its Prediction and Treatment in Light of Heterogeneous Pathways to Violence
• Part V Individual Interventions for Prevention
• Preschool Life Skills: Toward Teaching Prosocial Skills and Preventing Aggression in Young Children
• Teaching Gun Safety Skills to Children
• Part VI Individual Treatment: Therapies
• Evidence-Based Practice and Children and Adolescents: What Works? What Works Best?
• Evidence-Based Practice and Adults: What Works? What Works Best?
• Applied Behavior Analysis and Treatment of Violence and Aggression
• Anger Management
• Mindfulness and the Treatment of Aggression and Violence
• Third Wave Therapies and the Treatment of Violence and Aggression
• Parent Training and the Treatment of Violence and Aggression
• Training Staff to Manage Violence and Aggression
• Psychodynamic Treatment of Violence and Aggression: Empirical Evidence and New Approaches
• Multisystemic Therapy for Violent and Aggressive Youths
• Pharmacological Management of Aggressive Behavior in Psychiatric Patients
• Psychopharmacological Approaches to Aggression and Violence in Adults with Severe Mental Illness: What Works? What Works Best?
• The Fast Track Project: Effects on Violence and Aggression and Related Outcomes
• Interventions Targeting Alcohol, Violence, and HIV: Current Evidence and Future Directions
• Part VII Individual Treatment: Special Populations
• Treatment of Parent–Child Violence
• Interventions for Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence
• Intervention for Violence and Aggression in Gay and Lesbian Relationships
• Treating Anger and Aggression in Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• Anger in People Who Have Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
• Treatment of Anger and Aggression Following Acquired Brain Injury
• Part VIII Individual Forensic Treatment
• Evidence-Based Practice and Violent Offenders
• Beyond Aggression Replacement Training: Cognitive–Behavioral Programs for (Sexually) Violent Forensic Psychiatric Inpatients in the Netherlands
• Forensic Case Formulation for Violence and Aggression
• Youth in Forensic Services: Evidence-Based Treatment of Violence and Aggression
• Treatment of Violence and Aggression in Offenders with Developmental Disabilities
• Treatment of the Psychopathic Personality
• Violence Reduction Treatment of Psychopathy
• Prevention of Recidivism and Violent and Aggressive Offenders
• Volume III: Societal Interventions
• Part IX Violence and Families
• Family Violence
• Prevention of Aggression and Violence in Families
• Treatment of Batterers: What Works?
• Promoting Resilience in Members of Violent Families
• The Role of Police in Domestic Violence
• Part X School-Wide Interventions
• Promoting Positive Youth Development and Preventing Violence and Aggression: Connecting Individual and Ecological Developmental Assets
• Prevention of Violence, Aggression, and Bullying in Schools
• Promoting School-Wide Social Skills
• School-Wide Interventions for Bullying: What Works?
• Early Intervention and Prevention of Aggressive and Violent Behavior through School-Wide Systems of Positive Behavior Support
• Cyberbullying in Schools
• Predicting and Reducing Aggression and Violence toward Teachers: Extent of the Problem and Why it Matters
• Part XI Gang Violence
• Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Pathways to Gang Violence
• Gang Violence in Latin America
• Strategies for Preventing Gang Violence: A Century of Evolving Programming and Research
• Youth Activism as Violence Prevention
• Part XII Residential Settings
• Physical Abuse of People with Intellectual and Other Developmental Disabilities in Residential Care
• Violence and Aggression against Older Adults: What Works? What Works Best?
• Part XIII Bullying at Work
• Bullying at Work: Personal Relationships and Undermined Social Support—A Creative Writing Case Study
• Prevalence and Risk Factors for Workplace Bullying
• Prevention of Bullying at Work
• Part XIV Sports and Violence
• Violence in Football (Soccer): Overview, Prevalence, and Risk Factors
• Prevention of Football Hooliganism: A Review of the Evidence
• Hotspotting and Football Violence: Current Statistics and Implications for Prevention
• Part XV Youth Facililites
• Youth Facilities and Violence: An Overview
• Promoting Positive Youth Development in Community-Wide Efforts as an Approach to Preventing and Reducing Violence
• Creating and Sustaining Safe Environments in Juvenile Corrections
• What Works in Residential Programs for Aggressive and Violent Youth?
• Reforming Youth Facilities
• Part XVI The Police
• Evidence-Based Policing: Does It Reduce Violence?
• Police Violence: The Case of Indigenous Australians
• Reducing Violence and Aggression in Police Officers
• Part XVII Societal and National Interventions
• Does Modifying Media Reduce Aggression and Violence? Implementation Science and Community-Wide Media Interventions
• Involving Community in Sexual Violence Prevention: Engaging Bystanders
• Mobilizing Canada to Promote Healthy Relationships and Prevent Bullying among Children and Youth
• The KiVa Antibullying Program: Lessons Learned and Future Directions
• Coping with Bullying, and Promoting Well-Being and Positive Peer Relations