Sentence examples for violent predisposition from inspiring English sources
Skinner had previously been convicted for the crime and given a 30-year jail sentence after prosecution introduced rap lyrics as evidence of his violent predisposition and involvement in the shooting.
Retributivism pulls in opposing directions: genetic predisposition to violent or criminal acts may suggest "a volitional disability that makes blame inappropriate" or "a permanence that invites blame" (Wasserman 2001, p. 304).
We see a kind of predisposition for violent confrontation that isn't as much based on loyalty to Israel, but on something much closer to home".
Four per-cent (1/23) also reported the following: severity of condition, predisposition to violent offending, substance misuse and learning disability regardless of age.
Furthermore, there is strong evidence for a subset of substance users who exhibit violent behavior to have a predisposition to aggressiveness starting in childhood (Boles and Miotto 2003).
Violent men die violently.
When people endure this "triple whammy of genetic predisposition [to mental illness and/or violent behaviour], childhood adversity and substance misuse," says Dr Amlan Basu, the hospital's clinical director, "it becomes a long-term project, putting them back together".
Specifically, we test whether the level of legal cynicism characterizing the residential neighbourhood influences parents' interpretations of their children's violent behaviour as indicative of trait-based predispositions.
In the following section, we explain how through the role-taking process the cultural frame of legal cynicism alters parents' interpretations of their children's violent behaviour as symptomatic of individual psychological or trait-based predispositions to aggression and impulsivity.
Specifically, we argue that parents residing in legally cynical neighbourhoods which are characterized by pervasive views that legal recourse is inadequate will interpret their children's violent behaviour as rational, situated behavioural responses to precarious circumstances rather than as symptoms of trait-based predispositions.
