Kaique P. de Almeida, André H.N. da Silva, Vanessa D. Di Rienzo
{"title":"The management of aggression in third wave behavioral therapies: A systematic review","authors":"Kaique P. de Almeida, André H.N. da Silva, Vanessa D. Di Rienzo","doi":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Aggressive behavior has long been a focal point of inquiry within behavioral therapies. However, there is a lack of comprehensive reviews synthesizing the efficacy of third-wave behavioral therapies in managing aggression. This study addresses this gap through a systematic review, examining the effectiveness of third-generation behavioral therapies—Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Functional Analytical Psychotherapy (FAP), and Behavioral Activation (BA)—in managing aggressive behavior among adults.</div><div>Out of 38 articles selected for full reading, only six met the criteria for inclusion in this synthesis: three employing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as an intervention strategy and three employing Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Merely three of these studies were RCTs. Overall, these interventions exhibited a notable reduction in aggressive behavior during the treatment phase but failed to maintain this improvement during follow-up assessments.</div><div>This review contextualizes its findings in relation to existing systematic reviews and employs the Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative Studies to gauge the level of evidence. The collective evidence underscores the need for additional research employing diverse intervention strategies, with the objective of establishing more robust and enduring treatments for aggressive behavior.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51360,"journal":{"name":"Aggression and Violent Behavior","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 102012"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142578052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hate/bias crime against racial/ethnic minorities in the United States: A systematic review of empirical research and assessment of next steps","authors":"Chunrye Kim , Hyeyoung Lim , Claire Seungeun Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Hate/bias crimes against race and national origins have been among the most critical and long-standing issues in America. However, hate/bias crimes against minorities, especially targeting Asians, have been insufficiently studied. Using a systematic review, we examine how hate crimes against racial/ethnic minorities have been studied. To be included in this review, studies needed to meet the following criteria: (1) exclusively use peer-reviewed empirical articles published in English, (2) be published between 2000 and 2022, (3) focus on original empirical research examining hate and bias crimes against racial/ethnic minorities in the United States, (4) measure hate or bias crimes (i.e., bias victimization) using official reports or self-reports, and (5) directly measure hate/bias crime as either exposure or an outcome. A total of 26 articles from Web of Science, Scopus, PsycINFO, and Crossref that met the criteria were analyzed. This study finds that the number of articles on hate and bias crimes has significantly increased since the COVID-19 pandemic. Interestingly, there was a notable lack of studies specifically measuring hate and bias crimes against Asians before 2022. Additionally, all the studies included in this review were quantitative and predominantly cross-sectional. Most of these studies focused on multiple racial groups, including Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians, often comparing their experiences with hate crimes by racial group. While many studies used secondary datasets such as UCR, NIBRS, and NCVS, only a few offered policy recommendations based on their findings. We recommend future research to address the gap in scholarly articles on hate and bias crimes against racial and ethnic minorities in the US.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51360,"journal":{"name":"Aggression and Violent Behavior","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 102005"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142658651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effects of hot spots policing on violence: A systematic review and meta-analysis","authors":"Brandon Turchan , Anthony A. Braga","doi":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Violence is highly concentrated in a small number of very specific “hot spot” locations within cities. The concentration of violence at these places tends to be stable over extended time periods, suggesting highly localized place characteristics and dynamics generate persistent violence. Research suggests police can be effective in controlling violence when they focus their attention on these small high-violence locations. Past systematic reviews and meta-analyses of hot spots policing studies have not fully considered how this strategy impacts violence in general and its specific effects on violent crime types such as assaults, robberies, and violent firearm crimes. This study draws on data used in a previously completed systematic review of hot spots policing programs including 32 studies with 38 tests of the effects of this police strategy on violence. Meta-analyses report hot spots policing is associated with significant reductions in violence in treated places relative to comparison places without evidence of violent crime displacement. Increased traditional policing interventions reduced violence in treated hot spots as did problem-oriented policing interventions when implemented properly. Police departments adopting this effective violence reduction approach must design these programs in ways that do not create unintended harms, such as excessive enforcement, on communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51360,"journal":{"name":"Aggression and Violent Behavior","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 102011"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142571430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elene Nicola, Kiki Mastroyannopoulou, Honor Reeves, Laura Pass
{"title":"Longitudinal associations between peer victimisation subtypes and children and adolescents' anxiety: A meta-analysis","authors":"Elene Nicola, Kiki Mastroyannopoulou, Honor Reeves, Laura Pass","doi":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This meta-analysis examined the bidirectional effects between types of peer victimisation and anxiety. It also investigated types of anxiety as a potential moderator of this relationship, which has not been examined within a meta-analytic framework previously. Five electronic databases were searched and longitudinal studies exclusively utilising published and validated measures for peer victimisation subtypes and anxiety symptomology were included. A total of 3760 articles were screened and 14 studies with a total of 11,307 participants met inclusion criteria. Results showed significant bidirectional effects between anxiety and several subtypes of victimisations including cyber, overt, relational, and reputational victimisation. Although significant effects were seen among all associations, these were all deemed as small, except for relational peer victimisation predicting anxiety over time which was considered to be a moderate effect size. Moderator analysis of anxiety types suggested that relational peer victimisation predicted social anxiety to a greater and more significant extent than general symptoms of anxiety. It was also found that general anxiety symptoms were significantly greater at predicting overt peer victimisation over time than social anxiety symptoms. These results hold implications for theories around the development and maintenance of anxiety, as well as providing evidence to inform treatments and interventions for both anxiety disorders and programmes aimed to prevent peer victimisation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51360,"journal":{"name":"Aggression and Violent Behavior","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 102013"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142658652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Methods used to link crimes using behaviour: A literature review","authors":"Amy Burrell, Benjamin Costello, Jessica Woodhams","doi":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper reviews the crime linkage literature to identify how data were pre-processed for analysis, methods used to predict linkage status/series membership, and methods used to assess the accuracy of linkage predictions. Thirteen databases were searched, with 77 papers meeting the inclusion/exclusion criteria. Methods used to pre-process data were human judgement, similarity metrics (including machine learning approaches), spatial and temporal measures, and Mokken Scaling. Jaccard's coefficient and other measures of similarity (e.g., temporal proximity, inter-crime distance, similarity vectors) are the most common ways of pre-processing data. Methods for predicting linkage status were varied and included human (expert) judgement, logistic regression, multi-dimensional scaling, discriminant function analysis, principal component analysis and multiple correspondence analysis, Bayesian methods, fuzzy logic, and iterative classification trees. A common method used to assess linkage-prediction accuracy was to calculate the hit rate, although position on a ranked list was also used, and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis has emerged as a popular method of assessing accuracy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51360,"journal":{"name":"Aggression and Violent Behavior","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 102014"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142658653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mimosa Luigi , Laurie-Anne Martinez , Laurence Roy , Anne G. Crocker
{"title":"Experiences of forensic mental health patients and professionals with shared violence risk assessment and management: A scoping review of qualitative studies","authors":"Mimosa Luigi , Laurie-Anne Martinez , Laurence Roy , Anne G. Crocker","doi":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Person-centered care and shared decision-making between inpatients and professionals have become guiding principles for mental health care, yet their integration in forensic services remains limited by security-driven and legal considerations. In this context, emerging models of shared risk assessment and risk management could transform forensic patients' experience of, engagement in, and satisfaction with care. However, little evidence informs how shared approaches can improve these experiences of care and be successfully implemented in the forensic context.</div><div>A scoping review was conducted to understand the experiences of forensic patients and professionals in implementing shared approaches for violence risk assessment and management. MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO and ProQuest were searched for qualitative studies, restricting to inpatient adult settings and interventions targeting hetero-aggression or violence. Raters screened records, appraised quality, and charted findings for narrative synthesis and meta-aggregation.</div><div>From 1325 non-duplicate records screened, four articles were selected featuring three multicomponent approaches and one risk assessment tool. Both patients and professionals reported benefits, such as improved therapeutic relationships and patient self-understanding. Participants outlined interpersonal-, intervention-, and organizational-level barriers for patients to effectively influence decision-making. Practice and research implications are discussed, including training needs, how to address and leverage disagreements, and developing organizational change strategies to support shared approaches.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51360,"journal":{"name":"Aggression and Violent Behavior","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 102009"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142418890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"School bullying perpetration and victimization as predictors of youth delinquency: A meta-analysis of prospective studies and data","authors":"Glenn D. Walters","doi":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The purpose of this meta-analysis was to investigate the prospective relationship between bullying perpetration/victimization and delinquency in longitudinal/prospective studies published up through 2023. An electronic review of the literature identified 13 studies (19 samples; mean age of bullying = 13.45 years; <em>N</em> = 11,565 for perpetration and 21,640 for victimization) for the current meta-analysis. A random-effects analysis revealed that bullying perpetration produced a medium pooled effect size (<em>r</em><sub>x1y</sub> = 0.24) and bullying victimization a small pooled effect size (<em>r</em><sub>x2y</sub> = 0.13) when correlated with future delinquency. Partial correlations controlling for the alternate bullying measure (i.e., bullying victimization in the case of bullying perpetration, and bullying perpetration in the case of bullying victimization) were moderate (<em>r</em><sub>x1y.x2</sub> = 0.20) and very small (<em>r</em><sub>x2y.x1</sub> = 0.04) for bullying perpetration and bullying victimization, respectively. Results from this meta-analysis support bullying perpetration as a developmental antecedent of delinquency. Bullying victimization may also be linked to delinquency but at a level one-half to one-fifth the size of bullying perpetration.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51360,"journal":{"name":"Aggression and Violent Behavior","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 102010"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142418891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neuro-cognitive systems that, when dysfunctional, increase aggression risk and the potential for translation into clinical tools","authors":"R.J.R. Blair","doi":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The goal of this narrative review paper is to consider forms of neurocognitive dysfunction that increase risk for reactive and instrumental aggression. Neuro-cognitive functions that appear to mediate, inhibit or moderate reactive and instrumental aggression are identified and data on the association between perturbations of these neuro-cognitive functions and aggression risk are considered. The neuro-cognitive functions considered are: the acute threat response, emotion regulation, reinforcement-based decision-making, response control, empathy (responsiveness to distress cues) and affiliation. Their functional roles, putative neural substrates and data indicating dysfunction in aggressive populations will be considered. Moreover, brief considerations will be given regarding the impact of early life stress (abuse and neglect) may have on their development. Finally, the current situation with respect to the potential utility of neuro-cognitive indices and how such neuro-cognitive systems might be assessed is considered.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51360,"journal":{"name":"Aggression and Violent Behavior","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 102007"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142329653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Patrizia Pezzoli , Alexandra Therond , Maja Nikolic , Sarah K. Watts , Synthia Guimond , Michael C. Seto
{"title":"Reducing antisocial behavior through cognitive training: A systematic review and meta-analysis","authors":"Patrizia Pezzoli , Alexandra Therond , Maja Nikolic , Sarah K. Watts , Synthia Guimond , Michael C. Seto","doi":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cognitive deficits are a key risk factor for severe and persistent antisocial behavior (ASB); however, whether improving cognitive functioning reduces ASB remains unclear. To address this question, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of cognitive training interventions among individuals displaying ASB.</div><div>We searched PubMed, PsycINFO, and Web of Science for studies published between 1990 and 2023. Of 529 records screened and 54 full-texts assessed, we identified 14 studies including a total of 601 participants (age <em>M</em> = 39.12, <em>SD</em> = 9.33, 84 % male). Most studies aimed at improving multiple cognitive domains. Cognitive training yielded moderate reductions in ASB (<em>g</em> = 0.59, <em>p</em> < .001 in pre-post studies; <em>g</em> = 0.36, <em>p</em> = .003 in controlled trials). Effect sizes were larger for interventions targeting social cognition. Cognitive improvements were moderate in pre-post studies (<em>g</em> = 0.51, <em>p</em> < .001) but non-significant in controlled trials (<em>g</em> = 0.11, <em>p</em> = .27).</div><div>Cognitive training holds promise as a complementary approach for reducing ASB, but greater theoretical and measurement precision is needed to elucidate the mechanisms driving behavioral change. Future research directions include anchoring interventions on cognitive models of ASB, aligning treatment and assessment targets, and evaluating treatment moderators, scalability, and transfer effects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51360,"journal":{"name":"Aggression and Violent Behavior","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 102006"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142418892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tiago O. Paiva , Macià Buades-Rotger , Arielle Baskin-Sommers , Inti A. Brazil
{"title":"The unusual suspects: A systematic search for the molecular and cellular correlates of human aggression","authors":"Tiago O. Paiva , Macià Buades-Rotger , Arielle Baskin-Sommers , Inti A. Brazil","doi":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avb.2024.102002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Decades of research have uncovered several molecules and cell types (i.e., biomolecules) associated with aggression, violence, and hostility (AVH). In this systematic review, we aimed to identify which of these biomolecules have been predominantly studied in relation to AVH in human adults, and to obtain a general sense of the direction of the effects reported for each identified biomolecule. Eighty-one studies (out of 2914 initial abstracts) were included in the review, totaling 198 effects and 29,565 participants. Hormones, particularly testosterone and cortisol, were by far the most studied biomolecules (57.58 %), followed by cytokines (14.14 %), proteins (9.09 %), and neurotransmitters (4.55 %). Out of all extracted statistical effects, 15.1 % reported a negative association, 45.5 % reported no association, and 39.4 % reported a positive association between AVH and the biomolecules, although this pattern varied substantially for individual biomolecules. We also identified some research on biomolecules pertaining to the immune system, which could turn out to play crucial roles in advancing our understanding of AVH. These quantitative insights into the current state of biochemical research on AVH in human adults provide a basis for shaping a broader and more integrative research agenda for studying AVH.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51360,"journal":{"name":"Aggression and Violent Behavior","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 102002"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142327534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}