The most appropriate approach to controlling and managing violent behavior involves replacing the learned violent response with an alternative nonviolent one, and this can best be achieved through affecting behavioral skills and cognitive processes. Social skills training is one of the most commonly used behavioral approaches and is characterized by five component processes: information giving, modeling, behavioral rehearsal, corrective feedback, and social reinforcement. Central to the social skills training process is identifying the target behavior (violence) within a situation-specific context, followed by teaching alternative responses to the situation. The use of social skills training in the management of violent crime involves several implementation issues, such as assessment, training procedures, generalization to real-life situations, and the institutional environment. A case illustration of a social skills training program implemented in 1982 at a British maximum security prison is included. 45 references.