Question

Explain how predatory violence is different from general offending, making sure to discuss the various traits associated with predatory/serial offending.

Answer 1

Affective violence is defensive (a response to an imminent threat) and is accompanied by high levels of autonomic arousal, anger, or fear. In contrast,predatory violence is offensive. It is an attack behavior that is planned, purposeful, and emotionless, with minimal levels of autonomic arousal.The etiology of violent and aggressive behavior has been studied for several decades. Observations in the 1920s of human patients who manifested aggressive behavior after incurring neurological insults led researchers to explore a biological basis for the behavior. Animal research soon followed and provided the foundation for understanding this complex behavior. Efforts to use animal models of adaptive aggressive behavior to explain pathological aggression in a subgroup of the human population has proven to be a daunting task. The research has produced a vast database encompassing several distinct disciplines. Predatory and affective aggression garners support as a classification system from clinical, social, biopsychological and forensic databases