Psychopathy and animal cruelty offenders

The article devoted to the study formations the identity of the criminal like. Animal cruelty is considered one of the violent stages of formations, directions personalities. The author analyzes the relationship between the stages of formation of the criminal’s personality in order to for the development of preventive measures.

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Corporate Cruelty: Holding Factory Farms Accountable for Animal Cruelty Crimes to Encourage Systemic Reform

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3367234 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Mary Maerz

Keyword(s):

Systemic Reform ◽

Animal Cruelty ◽

Factory Farms

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Artistic Freedom or Animal Cruelty? Contemporary Visual Art Practice That Involves Live and Deceased Animals

Animals ◽

10.3390/ani11030812 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 812

Author(s):

Ellie Coleman ◽

Rebecca Scollen ◽

Beata Batorowicz ◽

David Akenson

Keyword(s):

Best Practice ◽

Animal Cruelty ◽

Art Practice ◽

Animal Protection ◽

Ethical Implications ◽

High Profile ◽

Unethical Practices ◽

Artistic Freedom ◽

Legal Guidelines ◽

Selection Of

This paper examines a selection of 21st-century international examples of exhibited visual artworks involving live or deceased animals. It seeks to reveal the risks and benefits of unique encounters with animals through art and to consider the ethical implications of artwork deploying animals. Australian and international animal protection laws are not explicit when it comes to the sourcing of animals for art nor for the direct inclusion of animals in artworks. This lack leads to a variety of artistic practices, some considered ethical while others are viewed as controversial, bordering on animal cruelty. Artwork selection is determined by a focus on high-profile artists who intentionally use animals in their practice and whose reputation has been fostered by this intention. The study provides insight into how the intentional use of ethically sourced animals within art practice can be a method of addressing hierarchal human–animal imbalances. Further, this study identifies unethical practices that may be best avoided regardless of the pro-animal political statements the artists put forward. Recommendations of how to better determine what is an acceptable use of animals in art with a view to informing legal guidelines and artistic best practice are presented.

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Making the links: child abuse, animal cruelty and domestic violence

Child Abuse Review ◽

10.1002/car.878 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 13 (6) ◽

pp. 399-414 ◽

Cited By ~ 67

Author(s):

Fiona Becker ◽

Lesley French

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Child Abuse ◽

Animal Cruelty

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Recurrent Childhood Animal Cruelty and Its Link to Recurrent Adult Interpersonal Violence

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology ◽

10.1177/0306624x17720175 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 62 (8) ◽

pp. 2345-2356 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Caleb E. Trentham ◽

Christopher Hensley ◽

Christina Policastro

Keyword(s):

Interpersonal Violence ◽

Animal Cruelty ◽

Outcome Variable ◽

Animal Abuse ◽

Southern State ◽

Medium Security ◽

Potential Link ◽

Violent Acts ◽

Using Data

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.

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The Mom and the Many: Animal Subplots and Vulnerable Characters in Ducks, Newburyport

Genre ◽

10.1215/00166928-9263104 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 54 (2) ◽

pp. 265-292

Author(s):

Ben De Bruyn

Keyword(s):

Animal Cruelty ◽

Geological Environment ◽

Species Extinction ◽

Industrial Labor ◽

Climate Fiction ◽

The Many ◽

Forms Of Violence

This article examines Lucy Ellmann's encyclopedic novel Ducks, Newburyport (2019) in the context of debates on modernist legacies, animal characters, and climate fiction. It pays particular attention to the text's signature strategy of including anecdotes about nonhuman creatures exposed to distinct forms of violence, anecdotes that reveal the concerns of the human narrator and her daughter but also highlight other animals, their unfamiliar phenomenologies, and their cautious cross-species partnerships. More specifically, the article tracks individual animals across the novel's pages and reconstructs their semiautonomous subplots as they unfold in a world characterized by animal cruelty, species extinction, and industrial labor. By forcing us to consider the perspectives of creatures like Jim, Mishipeshu, Audrey, and Gracia, Ellmann's narrative reminds us that the climate emergency does not just destabilize a shared geological environment but also endangers multiple and heterogeneous biological worlds.

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