Childhood Agression

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…too high a degree they commit an aggressive act. "One can undoubtedly identify some distinguishing characteristics among persons differin in aggressive patterns, but they may have limited value in predicting homicidal behavior in individual cases". This is because most of the acts that aggressive criminals commit entail peculiar circumstances and do not resemble patterns of other violent murders making it difficult to make a valid connection between types of aggressors and the potential to murder.