The Role of Aggression-Related Cognition in the Aggressive Behavior of Offenders: A General Aggression Model Perspective

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 119-138

  Gilbert, Flora ^a   Daffern, Michael ^a   Talevski, Diana ^a   Ogloff, James R P ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

cognition; general aggression model; offenders; schema; violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872664263     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854812467943     Document Type: Article

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