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“Antisocial behaviors” describes aggressive and defiant behaviors that violate the rights of others. These behaviors include aggressive or violent actions that cause harm to people or animals, disruptive displays of hostility/anger, and intentional acts of abuse such as bullying. Antisocial behaviors can be motivated by a disregard for the rights and well-being of others. Antisocial behaviors can also include illegal or criminal behaviors such as vandalism, theft, arson, illegal substance use/abuse, harassment, threatening violence, cybercrime, physical assault, and sexual assault/violence.
What Are Antisocial Behaviors and Their Impact?
The implications of antisocial behaviors cannot be understated – aggressive, violent, and illegal activity has far-reaching impacts across the globe and is a public health problem (UN, n.d.). Although deaths from armed conflict are on the decline,...
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Bedard, T. (2023). Antisocial Behavior and Domestic Violence. In: Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85493-5_43-1
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