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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abuse of animals Adjusted R Square adolescence adult alpha coefficient animal abuse animal companion animal cruelty animal rights animal welfare anthropocentrism Arkow Ascione attitudes toward animals attitudes toward nonhumans attitudes toward women behavior child abuse Child Offender Index Child Victim Index criminology Cronbach's alpha deviance hypothesis Deviance Index deviant activities domestic partner domestic violence dominionistic Employment Status engage in abuse environmental sociology examine explore F-Test family violence forms of abuse forms of violence Francione Gender graduation hypothesis harm included independent variables individuals kill an animal Knox County masculinities hypothesis negative attitudes never 2 rarely OLS Regression Predicting oppression partner abuse Partner Offender Pet Ownership physical abuse population positive attitudes protection rarely 3 sometimes reporting animal abuse respondents sample sexual abuse significant predictor social society sociology and criminology speciesist strongly agree survey T-Value P-Value Table teenager treatment of animals violence against humans violence against nonhumans