What were some of Hanson's characteristics and mental health diagnoses for individual batterers?

What will be an ideal response?


From a review of the literature, Hanson (2002) characterizes individual batterers as clinically assessed problematic individuals displaying poor impulse control, aggression, fear of intimacy, emotional dependence, fear of abandonment, and impaired ego functioning. Mental health diagnoses for batterers can include obsessive-compulsive, paranoid, borderline personality, passive-aggressive, narcissistic, and antisocial.

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a. Woodson v. North Carolina b. Furman v. Georgia c. Coker v. Georgia d. Schriro v. Summerlin

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The New Jersey ISP program has resentencing panels that convene regularly to determine an offender's continuing eligibility for program membershi

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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