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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Cruelty"”.
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Cruelty Counts: Anti-Asian Violence and its Queer Afterlives
This dissertation examines the afterlives of violence in queer Asian/American and diasporic visual and performance culture. As a broad response to the conjuncture of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and the renewed attention to anti-Asian violence, this project rethinks violence beyond its familiar terms …
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The link between recurrent childhood animal cruelty and recurrent interpersonal violence
… 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 …
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Childhood animal cruelty methods and their link to adult interpersonal violence
… a relationship between childhood acts of animal cruelty and later violence against humans. However, few studies have focused on the influence of animal cruelty methods on later interpersonal violence. In a replication of a study by Hensley and Tallichet (2009) and based on a sample of 180 inmates …
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States of Suffering: Marital Cruelty in Antebellum Virginia, Texas, and Wisconsin
… enmity, not companionate harmony. Violence and cruelty between spouses generally erupted as part of ongoing struggles for power in the household and in the relationship. As the only book-length study of marital cruelty for a southern state, this work challenges much of what historians have …
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A Study of the Theme of Cruelty in Four Renaissance Dramas
<p>Because the theme of cruelty pervades most of the Renaissance tragedies and even some of the comedies (Volpone and The Silent Woman, for example), it is appropriate to trace the development of this theme in four Renaissance dramas.1 Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and John …
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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 male …
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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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A Vicious Cycle of Abuse: The Relationship between Domestic Violence and Animal Cruelty
… between cycles of domestic violence and animal cruelty. It not only depicts that there is an under acknowledged a relationship between the two subjects, but also considers this relationship from multiple perspectives. This paper summarizes what constitutes animal cruelty and domestic violence, …
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Examining the effects of demographic and situational factors on childhood animal cruelty methods
… Dutkiewicz’s (2012) research on childhood animal cruelty methods by surveying 257 inmates in a medium-security Southern prison. The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between participants’ demographic and situational factors and their individual methods of childhood animal …
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Examining the effect of childhood animal cruelty motives on recurrent adult violent crimes toward humans
… the predictive ability of childhood animal cruelty motives as they are associated with later recurrent violence toward humans. Based on a sample of 180 inmates at one medium- and one maximum-security prison in a Southern state, the present study examines the relationship among several …
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The Politics of Animal Anti-Cruelty Legislation in Canada: An Analysis of Parliamentary Debates on Amending the Criminal Code
… significant had been done to change federal anti-cruelty laws in Canada since 1892. The consultation process concluded that among other concerns, outdated wording of the law has prevented the prosecution of many serious animal abusers. Since 1999 there have been a number of failed amendments to …
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The Unsafe Home: An Analysis of Reported Domestic Violence in India
… status on reported cases of dowry deaths and cruelty by husband and his relatives in 28 states of India between the years 2001 to 2016. My study hypothesizes that the states' female literacy rate and female workforce participation are negatively associated with the rate of reported cases of …
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Constitutional protection of animal “rights” in South Africa and India: A legal comparison
… instances, there has been a highest level of cruelty towards animals. Animal cruelty has long been a concern; however, society has occasionally accepted this behaviour as usual. This is because humans have power over animals and view them as property. A number of anti-cruelty Acts have been …
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An Investigation into Associations with Attachment, Companion Pet Attachment, Empathy, and Prosocial Behaviors in 18–20 Year Old College Students
… and inversely with antisocial behavior (animal cruelty); (2) pet attachment varies directly with empathy, humane treatment of animals and prosocial behavior and inversely with antisocial behavior (animal cruelty); and (3) pet attachment compensates for low parental attachment, serving as a …
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To confine or not to confine? : an analysis of the messaging of the proposition 2 campaigns
… 2008 Proposition 2: Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act campaigns. The Californians for Humane Farms (HSUS) and Californians for SAFE Food (CSF) were the respective proponent and opponent coalitions analyzed in this thesis. The analysis examined sixteen campaign artifacts that were examples …
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The Elemental Ideas of Harriet Beecher Stowe Revolutionized: Popular Thought in a Critical Period of American History
Reacting to oppression, and. its consequent cruelty, Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1851 wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. The novel was a reply to the evils of the slave system. For too long a time, an attitude of heartless submissiveness to slavery was noted in the united States. Sincere citizens of the North …
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Aspects of Evil in Seneca's Tragedies
… elsewhere they do indeed. In Chapter Three on “Cruelty,” I discuss the theme of cruelty in the Troades with reference to the de clementia where Seneca develops the theme of cruelty as the opposite of mercy, in an effort to guide the eighteen-year-old emperor Nero to compassionate rule. However, …
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Of vice and men : a virtue ethics study of Steinbeck's The pearl, East of Eden, and The winter of our discontent
… other and which may lead to acts of violence or cruelty. Moreover, far from being uncontrollable, these emotions have been shown to have a cognitive dimension which is greatly influenced by upbringing and environment. As indicated in East of Eden, parental neglect and abuse play prominent roles …
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Christopher Waddington’s Peers : A Study of the Workings of the Poor Law in townships of the Fylde of Lancashire, 1803 to 1865
… practice. Thirdly, the question of the alleged cruelty of the Workhouses under the New Poor Law as it operated in the Fylde is briefly considered and it is shown that inmates of the Fylde Union Workhouse were relatively fortunate as far as living conditions were concerned and that the ‘less …
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The bureaucracy of empathy : vivisection and the question of animal pain in Britain, 1876-1912
… the Home Office's implementation of the Cruelty to Animals Act (1876), the first effort anywhere in the world to impose legal restrictions on vivisection, during the three decades following its enactment. The study ends in 1912 with the findings of a second Royal Commission that evaluated …
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