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The Effect of Inmates' Self-Reported Childhood and Adolescent Animal Cruelty

Motivations on the Number of Convictions for Adult Violent Interpersonal Crimes

Christopher Hensley

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Suzanne E. Tallichet

Morehead State University, Kentucky

Few researchers have investigated the potentially predictive power of motives for childhood and adolescent animal cruelty as it is associated with interpersonal violence in adulthood. Based on a sample of 261 inmates at medium- and maximum-security prisons in a southern state, the present study examines the relationship among several retrospectively reported motives (anger, fun, dislike, and imitation) for animal cruelty and violent crime convictions (assault, rape, and murder). Almost half reported abusing animals out of anger, whereas more than one third did so for fun. Dislike for the animal and imitation were less frequently occurring motives. Participants who abused animals at an earlier age and those who did so out of anger or for fun were more likely to repeat the offense. Regression analyses revealed that abusing an animal out of fun in their youth was the most statistically salient motive for predicting later interpersonal violence as adults.

Key Words: animal cruelty • animal cruelty motivations • violent crime

This version was published on April 1, 2008

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 52, No. 2, 175-184 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X07303913
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C. Hensley, S. E. Tallichet, and E. L. Dutkiewicz
Recurrent Childhood Animal Cruelty: Is There a Relationship to Adult Recurrent Interpersonal Violence?
Criminal Justice Review, June 1, 2009; 34(2): 248 - 257.
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