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Arch Neurol. 1974;30(1):26-35.

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psychiatric Aspects

This discussion considers individual or personal violence rather than gang delinquencies, riots, revolutions, or war. Though many of the subcategories of personal violence listed below overlap and may have common elements, they are listed as behavioral "syndromes." The quotation marks denote that the syndromes need not have the rigor of identity as used in clinical medicine.

Murder.—

Some insight may be provided into the nature of violence by examining extreme examples of the phenomenon. Studies of murder have been understandably retrospective in character and many suffer from the bias of the hypothesis under which the data were collected. However, there are a number of thoughtful studies of single and multiple murders as performed by children, adolescents, or adults.^{76,77,85,112,131,147}

Some common but not invariant themes emerge. The victims of most child and adolescent murderers are parents. This principle extends to adult murderers in that in one study . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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