Up until now, researchers and clinicians have most commonly utilized a bimodal view of violence, to categorize aggression into two types, being: (1) Affective violence and (2) Instrumental violence, as proposed by Meloy (2006). Affective violence is often described as reactive violence that is characterized by anger and/or fear, accompanies high levels of arousal and is frequently a reaction to an impending threat (Meloy, 2006). Instrumental violence on the other hand is often described as premeditated violence, characterized by cognitive planning, a lack of emotion (e.g., anger and/or fear) and is not frequently accompanied by arousal (Meloy, 2006). Other typologies have used different terms (e.g., proactive vs. reactive aggression; impulsive vs. premeditated aggression) all bearing conceptual similarity but also some distinctions (Smeijers et al., 2018). Implicit in these typologies is the idea that these two different types of violence should serve different functions. However, it has been questioned that ...