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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Animal Abuse"”.
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Can childhood animal cruelty be learned?: examining age of onset and recurrency
Few studies have examined how animal cruelty can be a learned behavior. Using data collected from 257 male inmates at a Southern state medium-security prison, the current study seeks to replicate the Hensley, Tallichet and Dutkiewicz (2012) study. It examines the potential for the onset and …
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Nemo's Plight: Political Economy, Green-Cultural Criminology, and Fish Abuse
… (Beirne, 1999) inherent in the mammalian-centric animal abuse literature. To do this I draw from research in marine biology and animal cognition to philosophically establish that fish are moral agents, "subjects-of-a-life" (Regan, 1983) on par with mammals and thus worthy of more in-depth …
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Childhood animal cruelty motives and their relationship to recurrent adult interpersonal crimes
… investigating the link between childhood animal cruelty and adult interpersonal violence dates back to the early 1960s, few scholars have examined the predictive ability of childhood animal cruelty motives and their relationship to later violence toward humans. Based on a sample of 257 …
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The link between recurrent childhood animal cruelty and recurrent interpersonal violence
… 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 …
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The Importance of the Relationship Between Domestic Violence Victims and Their Pets
… the relationship between domestic violence and animal abuse with the goal of adding to the literature in this area. This study collected data from domestic violence and homeless shelters across the United States by sending a questionnaire via email. Two themes emerged based on the questionnaire …
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The Rescuers: intersections of individual and group activism and the recognition of the human-animal “Link”
… human-based violence and violence against animals has played a significant role in the creation of these programs, and has prompted a more holistic approach to providing services to all victimized family members. In this dissertation, I focus on the unique origin points of several …
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Animal welfare in South Africa : a multi-component programme design
The ongoing international atrocity of animal abuse is a persistent and widespread social problem within human society. The maltreatment of animals, particularly in rural impoverished contexts in South Africa continues to be a pertinent challenge facing local animal welfare organisations. Upon …
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George MacDonald and Victorian Society
… Four uncovers MacDonald’s involvement with the animal welfare movement during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Discussions on vivisection, vegetarianism, hunting, animal abuse, evolution, and degeneration are provided with a wide range of MacDonald’s texts, such as Alec Forbes of …
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Fortalecimiento de la protección animal en Bogotá mediante estrategias ciudadanas, institucionales y tecnológicas
… las causas y manifestaciones del maltrato animal en Bogotá, con el fin de proponer estrategias que fortalezcan la prevención y atención de esta problemática. Para ello, se integran perspectivas institucionales, normativas y sociales, reconociendo la importancia de la corresponsabilidad …