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Violence in animal cruelty offenders / Tia Hoffer, Holly Hargreaves-Cormany -- Yvonne Muirhead, J Reid Meloy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoffer, Tia.
- Series:
- SpringerBriefs in psychology. Behavioral criminology
- Springer briefs in psychology. Behavioral criminology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animal welfare.
- Violence.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 102 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]
- Summary:
- This book presents results from a BAU study including 259 active, animal cruelty cases. In addition, there were a total of 495 animal victims including numerous species, but dogs (64%) were the predominant animal victim. The offenders were all male, ranging in age from 17 years old to 82 years old (mean age of 34 years) and 73.44% had arrests for various other crimes prior to and/or following the instant animal cruelty arrest. Sixty percent of the offenders had been arrested for interpersonal violence prior, concurrent and/or post the instant active animal cruelty incident.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Historical background of animal cruelty
- Attachment
- Empathy
- General violence
- Meloy's biopsychosocial model of violence
- Meloy's bimodal theory of affective (reactive) and predatory (instrumental) violence
- The relationship between violence, antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy
- Interpersonal violence
- Description of the problem of animal cruelty and its association with interpersonal violence
- The relationship between family violence and animal cruelty
- Predicting risk of animal cruelty and other violence
- Motivations of animal cruelty acts and other violence
- Methods
- Materials
- Results
- Discussion
- Case example of predominantly affective animal cruelty offenses
- Case examples of predatory animal cruelty offenses
- Comparisons of affective and predatory offenders
- Suggestions
- Conclusion
- Limitations and strengths.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 331991037X
- 9783319910376
- OCLC:
- 1030901295
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