Beliefs about aggression among male and female prisoners

The Role of Alcohol and Steroid Hormones in Human Aggression

“…Archer et al, (1995) found pronounced differences between the sexes for the more escalated forms of aggression, especially in young adults. Although a group of female prisoners scored higher than male prison inmates on all four AQ scales, significantly so on the anger subscale (Archer and Haigh, 1997), this result was explained by the inclusion of younger females than males, since the instrumental scores decreased with age. In sum, gender differences are clearest in the more escalated forms of aggression leading to injury while gender differences are smaller, or the roles are even reversed, on initiating attacks on each other.…”

“…Criminal behavior is systematically related to age. Most serious crimes are committed by young adults, with a peak between 16-18 years, after which there is a steady decrease with age (Archer and Haigh, 1997;Petersilia, 1980). Earlier studies have found that aging decreases the probability of male-to-female aggression (Kantor et al, 1994;Pan et al, 1994), and that more domestic violence has been documented among younger couples (Wilt and Olson, 1996).…”

Do the same risk and protective factors influence aggression toward partners and same‐sex others?

“…This probably reflected the generally negative attitudes towards male perpetration of IPV (Felson, 2002). In previous studies, the correlations between instrumental beliefs and general measures of aggression were positive and high whereas those for the expressive scale were negative and weak (Archer, 1997a(Archer, , 1997b.…”

Validation of the Dutch version of the aggression questionnaire in adolescent male offenders

“…Exceptions to this trend have been studies among offenders [Archer and Haigh, 1997a;Williams et al, 1996], military base personnel [Harris and Knight-Bohnhoff, 1996, study 2], and juvenile male delinquents [Ruchkin and Eisemann, 2000].…”

“…For example, higher AQ physical aggression scores have been found for men compared with women [e.g., Buss and Perry, 1992;Meesters et al, 1996], unemployed men score higher than students [Archer et al, 1995a], and aggression is negatively related to age [Archer and Haigh, 1997b;Harris, 1996] and to level of education [Harris and Knight-Bohnhoff, 1996]. Because the present sample consisted of maladjusted adolescent males from the lower educational strata, mean AQ scores were expected to be relatively high and comparable to offender populations [see Archer and Haigh, 1997a;Harris and Knight-Bohnhoff, 1996;Williams et al, 1996]. This expectation is supported by a recent study in Russian male delinquents aged 15 to 18 years, in which high AQ scores were reported, particularly for the Physical Aggression subscale [Ruchkin and Eisemann, 2000].…”