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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From AltaMira Press OCT-DEC 03
Linda Merz-Perez Animal Cruelty: Pathway to Violence Against People Pbk published November 2003 by AltaMira Press at £18.99 ISBN: 0759103046


Practitioners in the animal welfare field, law enforcement circles and social services arena have often maintained that childhood cruelty to animals is a forerunner to violence against people. does this behaviour serve as a red flag with respect to extremely violent offenders, such as serial killers? Is it part of the cycle of violence associated with domestic abuse? Perez and Heide provide a scientific examination of this relationship and examine issues of cruelty across different types of animals (pet, wild, stray, farm). The authors evaluate both qualitative and quantitative data to identify correlations between childhood cruelty and adult violent behavior, utilizing interviews and criminal records of violent and nonviolent inmates in a maximum security prison. Their findings should be of importance to a diverse audience including researchers and practitioners in the field of juvenile justice, violence and domestic abuse, social welfare, animal welfare and animal rights and developmental psychologists and counselors as well as law enforcement officers, district attorneys and judges, county and municipal officials, animal control officers, veterinarians and school administrators, especially those concerned with intervention and prevention strategies.

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