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TARGETS OF VIOLENCE AND AGGRESSION TARGETS OF VIOLENCE AND AGGRESSION ADVANCES IN PSYCHOLOGY 76 Editoi.s: G. E. STELMACH P. A. VROON NORTH-HOLLAND AMSTERDAM NEW YORK OXFORD a TOKYO TARGETS OF VIOLENCE AND AGGRESSION Edited by Ronald BAENNINGER Depustment c$ Psychology Temple University Philudelphiu, Pennsyhaniu U.S.A. 1991 NORTH-HOLL-A ND AMSTERDAM NEW YORK OXFORD TOKYO NORTH-HOLLAND ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHERS B.V. Sara Burgerhartstraat 25 P.O. Box 21 I, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands Distributors for the United States and Canada: ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. 655 Avenue of the Americas New York, N.Y. 10010, U.S.A. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Targets of violence and aggression I edited by Ronald Baenninger. p. cm. -- (Advances in psychology ; 76) Includes indexes. ISBN 0-444-88483-1 1. Violence. 2. Aggressiveness (Psychology) 3. Victims of crimes. I. Baenninger. Ronald. 11. Series: Advances in psychology (Amsterdam. Netherlands) ; 76. HM291.T34 1991 303.6--dc20 90-20291 CIP ISBN: 0 444 88483 1 ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHERS B.V.. 1991 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, siored in a retrieval system, or transmitted. in any form or by any means. electronic, mechanical, photocopying. recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V./ Physical Sciences and Engineering Division, P.O. Box 103, 1000 AC Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Special regulations for readers in the U.S.A. - This publication has been registered with the Copyright Clearance Center Inc. (CCC). Salem, Massachusetts. Information can be obtained from the CCC about conditions under which photocopies of parts of this publication may be made in the U.S.A. All other copyright questions, including photocopying outside of the U.S.A., should be referred to the copyright owner, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.. unless otherwise specified. No responsibility is assumed by the Publisher for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability. negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products. instructions or ideas contained in the material herein. Printed in The Netherlands V Table of Contents ................................................................... List of Contributors vii ................................................................ Acknowledgements.. ix Chapter 1 Introduction: Aggression and its targets .................................... Ronald Baenninger 1 Aggression Toward Defenseless Targets Chapter 2 Violence toward other species .................................... Ronald Baenninger 5 Chapter 3 Victimization among school children ................................................. an Olweus 45 Chapter 4 Victim risk factors in the physical abuse of children ...................J ohn F. Knutson, Helen A. Schartz, and Lisa Y. Zaidi 103 Violence and Social Institutions Chapter 5 Institutional violence directed toward children: The case of corporal punishment ...................................... in schools Zm'n A. Hyman, and Iacqueline Clarke 159 Chapter 6 Athletes as targets of aggrcssion ......................................... Gordon Russell 21 1 Chapter 7 Aggression on roadways ................................. rnond W. Novaco 253 ChaDter 8 Violence toward clinicians 1 ........................................... Burr Eichelrnan 327 vi Table of Contents Gender -related violence Chapter 9 Gay-Bashing: Violence and aggression ................. against gay men and lesbians Peter M. Nardi and Ralph Bolfon 349 Chapter 10 Aggression by women: Mores, myths, .............................................. and methods Luci Paul and MaryAnn Baenninger 40 1 Chapter 11 Violence, aggression, and targets: ......... An overview Ronald Baenninger 443 ...................................................................... Author Index 462 ..................................................................... Subject Index 469 vii List of Contributors MaryAnn Baenninger, Department of Psychology, Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, USA Ronald Baenninger, Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Ralph Bol ton, Deparment of Sociology and Anthropology, Pomona College, Claremont, California, USA Jacqueline Clarke, Deparment of School Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Burr Eichelman, Deparment of Psychiatry, Dorothea Dix Hospital, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA Irwin Hyman, Department of School Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA John Knutson, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA Peter Nardi, Department of Sociology, Pitzer College, Claremont, California, USA Raymond Novaco, Program in Social Ecology, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, USA Dan Olweus, Department of Personality Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Luci Paul, Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Gordon Russell, Department of Psychology, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada Helen Schartz, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA Lisa Zaidi, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA This Page Intentionally Left Blank ix Acknowledgements I am grateful for the two very different kinds of inspiration provided by my father, Hans Baenninger, and my "father-figure", Keck Moyer. On a more practical level, the book would never have reached production without the computer and word processing skills of Monica Greco, Jane Burrell, and MaryAnn Baenninger, to all of whom I am sincerely grateful. RB

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The chapters in this volume have been written by authors whose research work emphasizes the aggression-eliciting characteristics of people and other animals, the traits that make them targets of aggressive behavior. The clear focus of the book is on aggression by humans, although some of the authors
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