Neely

   " Violence towards others in the community has been identified as a significant problem for a subset of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.

Aims:

To investigate the extent to which post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other risk factors predict future violent behaviour in military veterans."

 

"Veterans with both PTSD and alcohol misuse had a substantially higher rate of subsequent severe violence (35.9%)  

compared with veterans with alcohol misuse without PTSD (10.6%), 

 PTSD without alcohol misuse (10.0%)  

or neither PTSD nor alcohol misuse (5.3%). "

"Current theory and science of self-dysregulation conceptualises violence and physical aggression as occurring when the strength of impelling forces (those pushing towards action) exceed the strength of the inhibiting forces (those preventing a move towards action)  

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"preliminary report released Tuesday by the Council on Criminal Justice think tank found that about one-third of veterans say they have been arrested at least once, compared to fewer than one-fifth of all nonveterans, citing Justice Department data from 2015. " 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna44326

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4006087/