This paper presents a systems-level framework describing how blocked agency and internal regulatory failure in adults can produce repeatable coercive or harmful behavioral scripts. The model does not posit moral deficit, trait pathology, or intrinsic desire for harm. Instead, repetition is explained as a learned regulatory strategy reinforced by relief following externalized regulation. Under conditions in which legitimate authorship is constrained, action restores coherence more reliably than reflection, and dominance becomes compensatory rather than expressive. The framework distinguishes parasitic dominance from healthy dominance, identifies escalation and substitution risks, and specifies explicit falsifiability criteria. The model applies primarily to adult-onset patterns observed in contexts such as institutional coercion, interpersonal abuse, grievance-driven violence, and bureaucratic harassment. It explicitly excludes congenital psychopathy, severe personality disorders, and role-bound or ideologically ordered violence enacted under stable authorship. This work is intended for analytic, forensic, and preventive use rather than diagnosis or moral judgment.
Matthew Dominik (Tue,) studied this question.