How does the public health perspective help to understand the perpetration of violence? (Be sure to explain both the what the public health perspective is and how it helps us to understand the perpetration of violence) 500

Identify and explain 2 theories of interpersonal violence that you think are the most convincing. Explain why. How can you integrate these theories with the pH perspective? 300

interpersonal theories of violence

biological/hereditary theories of crime

• genetics and crime
• fear conditioning and crime
• brain dysfunction and crime

psychological and psychiatric perspective on criminality

• M'Naghten rule
• irresistible impulse
• durham rule
• diminished capacity
• substantial capacity rule

integrated development and life-course theories of violent behavior