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Still there's no missing their common factors—the same gleeful assaultiveness, the party atmosphere, the unembarrassed rationalizations for criminal brutality.
Mob Violence and the 'Looting Bankers' Defense Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011
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Four behaviors are specifically associated with imminent risk for violence: (1) recent assaultiveness; (2) homicidal or assaultive threats or intent; (3) pacing, muscle-clenching, or menacing gestures; (4) agitation, rage, shouting, or irritability.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Symptoms may persist; agitation and assaultiveness may become unmanageable.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Occasionally, standard behavioral and pharmacologie interventions fail to relieve agitation, assaultiveness, or self-destructive behavior in a patient for whom the treatment of the underlying process e.g., infection has not begun to take effect.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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The codes, explained Montez, referred to inmate characteristics that demanded staff vigilance: suicidal tendencies, drug addiction, unpredictability, mental retardation, assaultiveness, medical abnormalities, and physical handicaps—as in the case of the toothless double amputee in the first room I viewed, who stood on his knee stumps and stared at the floor.
Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987
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The codes, explained Montez, referred to inmate characteristics that demanded staff vigilance: suicidal tendencies, drug addiction, unpredictability, mental retardation, assaultiveness, medical abnormalities, and physical handicaps—as in the case of the toothless double amputee in the first room I viewed, who stood on his knee stumps and stared at the floor.
Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987
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The codes, explained Montez, referred to inmate characteristics that demanded staff vigilance: suicidal tendencies, drug addiction, unpredictability, mental retardation, assaultiveness, medical abnormalities, and physical handicaps—as in the case of the toothless double amputee in the first room I viewed, who stood on his knee stumps and stared at the floor.
Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987
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As the jury in this case found, the 43rd precinct police had particular knowledge of Frank Sorichetti’s abusiveness, assaultiveness and chronic alcoholism.
Law In The Health and Human Services Donald T. Dickson 1995
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