Basically the above; what drives people to behave in a way that is sometimes outright murderous? Who are offenders and do they have certain traits in common?
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so, in addition to the other answers here, theirs a psychological element at play of distancing, whereby both the offenders car and the victims car act as a layer of “distance” from it being direct person on person violence. the offender isn’t running up to someone and punching them in their very human face, their using a metal box to cause damage to a metal box. The fact that metal box hold a human who might be injured is basically glossed over in the offenders mind, they just think they are casing property damage, no worse than, say, a jilted ex keying your car.
its just self-serving justification for the offender to rationalise away the harm they might be doing, but its very much a part of their thought process in many cases.
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