The Committee was set up in 1990, under the guidance of the Australian Institute of Criminology, by the Australian national and state governments, to report on trends in violence in Australia, its causes, and effective strategies for reducing violence. This is the first of six e-mails which summarise its findings.
Families constitute the training ground for aggression.
It is within the Family that aggressive behaviours are first learned. To the extent that Families fail to instil non-violent values in their children, those children will be more likely to develop a repertoire of violent behaviours as they negotiate life in society at large.