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In the United States over 20,000 people are the victims of willful (nonnegligent) homicide each year. About three-quarters of these homicides are eventually “solved” with the arrest of one or more persons. The legal treatment of these defendants provides a great amount of information on the social norms related to anger and aggression.
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Averill, J.R. (1982). Anger and the Law. In: Anger and Aggression. Springer Series in Social Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5743-1_5
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