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Our analysis of police assaults, as summarized in the previous chapter, suggested that incidents such as those we have described are largely precipitated by the feelings of one or another of the parties involved. In the case studies that follow, we examine this relationship in some depth. We try to show that the various occasions of violence in the life of a person can be symptoms or manifestations of his personality. We draw on three interviews: one with a chronic police assaulter, one with an officer who has been often assaulted, and one with a troublesome prison inmate. In each case, we record incidents of violence, trace the motives behind them, and examine these motives. We confine ourselves in this chapter to the involvement of one person (our subject) in each incident. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)