@article{ref1,
title="Categorization and prediction of crimes of passion based on attitudes toward violence",
journal="International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology",
year="2016",
author="Guan, Muzhen and Li, Xiaojing and Xiao, Wei and Miao, Danmin and Liu, Xufeng",
volume="61",
number="15",
pages="1775-1790",
abstract="The present study explored implicit and explicit attitudes toward violence in crimes of passion. Criminals (n = 96) who had perpetrated crimes of passion and students (n = 100) participated in this study. Explicit attitudes toward violence were evaluated using the Abnormal Personality Risk Inventory (APRI), and implicit attitude toward violence was evaluated using the Implicit Association Test (IAT). <br><br>RESULTS indicated that APRI scores of the perpetrators were significantly higher than that of the control group (p <.05), suggesting that explicit attitudes toward violence could discriminate between the criminals and the control group. There was a significant IAT effect demonstrating a negative implicit attitude toward violence in both the control group and in the criminals (n = 68); whereas there was a significant IAT effect manifesting a positive implicit attitude toward violence in the criminals (n = 16) only. These results suggest that combining explicit and implicit attitudes could provide an empirical classification of crimes of passion.<br><br>© The Author(s) 2016.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-624X",
doi="10.1177/0306624X16643501",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X16643501"
}