TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Categorization and prediction of crimes of passion based on attitudes toward violence
JO  - International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
A1  - Guan, Muzhen
A1  - Li, Xiaojing
A1  - Xiao, Wei
A1  - Miao, Danmin
A1  - Liu, Xufeng
SP  - 1775
EP  - 1790
VL  - 61
IS  - 15
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0306-624X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X16643501
ID  - ref1
ER  -