Linking Animal Cruelty and Family ViolenceLinking Animal Cruelty and Family Violence is an innovative and exciting study in that another theoretical link in the causal chain leading to familial violence has been identified. The connection between animal abuse and child abuse sets up a diagnostic behavior that clinicians (physicians, psychologists, and social workers), teachers, and police (animal and crimes of violence) can use in generating data bases to monitor family abuse and perhaps possibly explain some types of homicide. Any indicators that facilitate longitudinal monitoring of potential perpetrators of crimes of violence would reduce the levels of victimization in society. This study is both theoretically exciting and pragmatically useful. This book will find a welcome audience among academics and practitioners. |
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THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS | 1 |
STUDY METHODOLOGY | 13 |
ABUSE OF NONHUMANS | 37 |
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abuse of animals Adjusted R Square adult alpha coefficient Animal Abuse Index animal companion animal cruelty animal rights animal welfare Animals Index Attitudes Arluke attitudes toward animals attitudes toward nonhumans attitudes toward women behavior child abuse Child Offender Index Child Victim Index compassion for prevention crime criminology Cronbach's alpha cruelty to animals Deviance Index deviant activities domestic partner domestic violence dominionistic environmental sociology explore F-Test Family Income 000 family violence forms of abuse forms of violence Francione Gender graduation hypothesis Immune from civil indicating individuals Knox County Linking the circles masculinities hypothesis negative attitudes never 2 rarely OLS Regression Predicting partner abuse Partner Offender Partner Victim Index percent perpetration Pet Ownership physical abuse positive attitudes rarely 3 sometimes reporting animal abuse respondents sexual abuse significant predictor social social control theory society speciesist survey T-Value P-Value Coefficient theory treatment of animals violence against humans West Lafayette Women Index Child