Multiple scientific disciplines have weighed in with different viewpoints regarding the origins
of criminal behavior among human beings. What is lacking, however, is a framework …

We integrate life history (LH) theory with “hot/cool” systems theory of self-regulation to
predict sexually and socially coercive behaviors, including intimate partner violence (IPV) …

Psychological Criminology addresses the question: what is it about individuals and their
experiences that cause them to commit crime and/or to become criminal? This book …

Research on sexual behavior often characterizes rough sex as sexual aggression and as
violent or abusive in nature. In a sample of 734 male and female undergraduates, we …

Evolutionary neuroandrogenic (ENA) theory contends that males are more involved in crime
than females due to an evolved female preference for mates who are (or at least appear to …

Men and women often come into conflict over issues of mating and sex. From an
evolutionary perspective, we review the literature on attitudes toward casual sex, sexual …

The prevalence of Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (CSAI) is ever increasing with the
advancement of technology in today's world, and with that is an increase of risk of …

As with any criminal behavior, the causes of intimate partner sexual coercion are likely
complex and multifaceted. This chapter focuses exclusively on the characteristics and …

Abstract Life-course-persistent (LCP) offending has been intensely studied over the last
several decades resulting in an impressive amount of evidence linking chronic offending …

This article describes evolutionary psychological (EP) perspectives on aggression that is
used to gain access to sexual activity to which one of the participants does not consent …