Violence in Animal Cruelty Offenders

• Main Authors: Hoffer, Tia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Hargreaves-Cormany, Holly (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Muirhead, Yvonne (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Meloy, J Reid (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Behavioral Criminology,
• Subjects: Forensic psychology.; Forensic Psychology.
• Physical Description: XIII, 102 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319910383
• ISSN: 2194-1866
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-91038-3

This book presents results from a BAU study including 259 active, animal cruelty cases. In addition, there were a total of 495 animal victims including numerous species, but dogs (64%) were the predominant animal victim. The offenders were all male, ranging in age from 17-years old to 82 years old (mean age of 34 years) and 73.44% had arrests for various other crimes prior to and/or following the instant animal cruelty arrest. Sixty percent of the offenders had been arrested for interpersonal violence prior, concurrent and/or post the instant active animal cruelty incident. .