The "Homogamy" of Road Rage: Understanding the Relationship between Victimization and Offending among Aggressive and Violent Motorists

Violence and Victims

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 517-531

  Asbridge, Mark ^a,b   Smart, Reginald G ^a   Mann, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE; AGGRESSION; CANADA; DEMOGRAPHY; DRIVER; FEMALE; GENDER; GESTURE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OFFENDER; REVIEW; ROAD RAGE; THREAT; URBAN AREA; VICTIM; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0347984987     PISSN: 08866708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/vivi.2003.18.5.517     Document Type: Review

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