RT Article
T1 Recurrent childhood animal cruelty and its link to recurrent adult interpersonal violence
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 62
IS 8
SP 2345
OP 2356
A1 Trentham, Caleb E.
A2 Hensley, Christopher 1972-
A2 Policastro, Christina
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1586564870
AB In the early 1960s, researchers began to examine the potential link between childhood animal cruelty and future interpersonal violence. Findings since then have been inconsistent in establishing a relationship between the two. This may be due to researchers failing to measure the recurrency of childhood animal abuse and the recurrency of later violent acts committed in adulthood. The current study, using data from 257 inmates at a medium-security prison in a Southern state, is a replication of research conducted by Tallichet and Hensley, and Hensley, Tallichet, and Dutkiewicz, which examined this recurrency issue. The only statistically significant predictor of recurrent adult interpersonal violence in this study was recurrent childhood animal cruelty. Inmates who engaged in recurrent childhood animal cruelty were more likely to commit recurrent adult interpersonal violence. Respondents’ race, education, and childhood residence were not significant predictors of the outcome variable.
K1 Animal cruelty
K1 Interpersonal violence
K1 Recurrency
K1 Tierquälerei
K1 Wiederkehr
DO 10.1177/0306624X17720175