The link between recurrent childhood animal cruelty and recurrent interpersonal violence

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dc.contributor.authorTrentham, C. E.
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-03T15:15:50Z
dc.date.available2016-10-03T15:15:50Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractIn 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 (2004) and Hensley, Tallichet, and Dutkiewicz (2009), 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. (Author Abstract)en_US
dc.identifier.citationTrentham, C. E. (2016). The link between recurrent childhood animal cruelty and recurrent interpersonal violence. Chattanooga, TN: University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://scholar.utc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1617&context=theses
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/2968
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Tennessee at Chattanooga.en_US
dc.subjectchild abuseen_US
dc.subjectoffendersen_US
dc.subjectperpetratorsen_US
dc.subjectrisk factorsen_US
dc.subjectresearchen_US
dc.titleThe link between recurrent childhood animal cruelty and recurrent interpersonal violenceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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