@article{ref1,
title="Violent criminality and self-compassion",
journal="Aggression and violent behavior",
year="2015",
author="Morley, Richard H.",
volume="24",
number="",
pages="226-240",
abstract="This paper reviews and discusses multiple sociological, psychological, and neurological risk factors associated with violent crime and proposes self-compassion, an indicator of positive mental health, as a common link among these variables. Cross-disciplinary findings have implicated neurological abnormalities resulting from exposure to violence, low self-control, lack of social bonds, and self-esteem to violent criminality. This paper contends that self-compassion is associated with each of these variables and discusses current findings that provide evidence for a link between self-compassion and violent crime. Furthermore, this paper discusses an example of an intervention that involves self-compassion. Finally, this paper discusses implications of the link between self-compassion to violent crime and risk factors associated with violent crime.<p />",
language="en",
issn="1359-1789",
doi="10.1016/j.avb.2015.05.017",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2015.05.017"
}