The course will provide a broad overview of: theories of aggression; crimes of violence; the clinical assessment of dangerousness; dangerousness: a review; homicide; infanticide and filicide; family violence: review of the literature; family violence: clinical aspects; brief overview of sexual violence; mass media and violence; victims of violent crime; bereavement and loss; suicide; sieges and their aftermath; interrogation and torture; multiple-victim killers; psychopathology and treatment of psychotic aggression; violence in hospital, management of violence and seclusion; risk assessment and management for criminal, physical and sexual recidivism.