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Introduction; Part I. General Perspectives: 1. Understanding violence;2. Origins of violent behavior over the life span; 3. A review of research onthe taxonomy of life-course persistent versus adolescence-limited antisocialbehavior; Part II. Biological Bases of Violence: 4. Behavior-genetics ofcriminality and aggression; 5. The genetics of aggression in mice; 6. Thepsychophysiology of aggression: autonomic, electrocortical, and neuro-imagingfindings; 7. Biosocial bases of violence; 8. Neurobiology of impulsiveaggression: focus on serotonin and the orbitofrontal cortex; 9. Theneuropsychology of violence; 10. The interaction of nature and nurture inantisocial behavior; Part III. Individual Factors and Violence: 11.Relational aggression and gender: an overview; 12. Personality dispositionsand the development of violence and conduct problems; 13. Personality andviolence: the unifying role of structural models of personality; 14. Exposureto violence, mental health and violent behavior; 15. Social-cognitiveprocesses in the development of antisocial and violent behavior; 16.Self-control theory and criminal violence; Part IV. Interpersonal Factors andViolent Behavior: 17. Peers and violence: a two sided developmentalperspective; 18. Youth gangs and violent behavior; 19. Family violence; 20.Youth violence across ethnic and national groups: comparisons of rates anddevelopmental processes; 21. Adolescent dating abuse perpetration: a reviewof findings, methodological limitations, and suggestions for future research;22. Social networks and violent behavior; 23. Public health and violence:moving forward in a global context; 24. Cross-national research on violentvictimization; 25. Violent juvenile delinquency: changes, consequences, andimplications; 26. Strain theory and violent behavior; Part V. ContextualFactors and Violent Behavior: 27. School violence; 28. Why observing violenceincreases the risk of violent behavior by the observer; 29. Violence andculture in the United States; 30. Terrorism as a form of violence; 31.Therapeutic treatment approaches to violent behavior; 32. Psychopharmacologyof violence; 33. Social learning and violent behavior; 34. Substance use andviolent behavior; 35. Poverty/ socioeconomic status and exposure to violencein the lives of children and adolescents; 36. Social contagion of violence;Part VI. Methods for Studying Violent Behavior: 37. Studying aggression withstructural equation modeling; 38. Overview of a semi-parametric, group basedapproach for analyzing trajectories of development; 39. Relocating violence:practice and power in an emerging field of qualitative research; Part VII.Looking Toward the Future: 40. Violent behavior and the science ofprevention; 41. New directions in research on violence: bridging science,practice and policy.