de Becker, Gavin PROTECTING THE GIFT: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane) Dell, 1999 A leading expert in
predicting violent behavior, Gavin de Becker, shares his wisdom and experience with parents on protecting children from violence.
And people have gotten carried away trying to
predict violent behavior: The 19th century field of phrenology, for example, held that the shape of one's skull could determine one's propensity for criminality and violence.
Not exact matches
In a detailed investigation using data from six sites and three countries, Lisa Broidy and several colleagues examined the evolution of physical aggression and other problem
behaviors during childhood to
predict violent and nonviolent offending outcomes in adolescence.
The RPQ is a self - report measure that exhibits excellent construct and predictive validity, with the proactive subscale
predicting objectively measured conduct problems and externalizing
behaviors [59] and initiation of fights, delinquency, serious
violent offending and psychopathic traits in adolescence [58].