Animal Abuse and Interpersonal Violence A Psycho-Criminological Understanding

by Chan, Heng Choon (Oliver); Wong, Rebecca W.

• ISBN13: 9781119894100
• ISBN10: 1119894107
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-11-13
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

A comprehensive examination of the causes of, and links between, interpersonal and interspecies violence

Animal Abuse and Interpersonal Violence: A Psycho-Criminological Understanding addresses the many aspects of the link between animal cruelty and human violence. Presenting new theory, research, policy, and practice, this authoritative volume explores the subject through a psycho-criminological lens to describe, explain, and potentially prevent intentional behavior that causes pain, suffering, or death in animals and humans.

With an integrated theoretical-practical approach, Animal Abuse and Interpersonal Violence offers up-to-date research and provides real-world insights into current thinking in the study of animal abuse and interpersonal violence. Sixteen in-depth chapters by a multidisciplinary team of active researchers and experienced field practitioners examine central topics in the field, including different forms of animal exploitation, connections between animal cruelty and substance abuse, the association between childhood animal cruelty and adult interpersonal violence, the role of veterinarians in the identification of animal abuse cases, the complex legal aspects of animal abuse cases, and more.

• Advances scholarship on animal abuse, its relationship with interpersonal violence, and the psycho-criminological mechanisms involved in that relationship
• Introduces readers to contemporary research on a range of topics and issues related to animal abuse and interpersonal violence
• Examines the origins of animal cruelty, its societal implications, and various prevention and treatment approaches
• Defines and describes various types of animal maltreatment and their links to different forms of interpersonal violence

Animal Abuse and Interpersonal Violence: A Psycho-Criminological Understanding is essential reading for practitioners, researchers, scholars, and advanced students in fields such as behavioral science, law, criminology, veterinary forensics, criminal justice, law enforcement, social work, sociology, social sciences, education, and animal welfare.

Author Biography

Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Birmingham, UK. Dr. Chan's research focuses on sexual homicide, sexual offending, stalking, psycho-criminology, and Asian criminology. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and presented at numerous academic conferences. He is the author and co-author of six books, including A Global Casebook of Sexual Homicide and Psycho-Criminological Approaches to Stalking Behavior: An International Perspective. He is the series editor of Psycho-Criminology of Crime, Mental Health, and the Law, and serves on the editorial boards of several leading journals

Rebecca W.Y. Wong is an Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong. Her primary research interests are in the fields of green criminology with a specific focus on illegal endangered wildlife trade in Hong Kong and Mainland China. She is also interested in criminal networks and issues of trust in the underworld. Her book The Illegal Wildlife Trade in China: Understanding Distribution Networks was awarded the Distinguished Book Award by the Asian Criminological Society in 2020.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Foreword

Endorsements

About the Editors

Introduction: A Psycho-Criminological Understanding of Animal Abuse and Interpersonal Violence
Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan and Rebecca W.Y. Wong

 

PART 1- Theory and Research

Chapter 2: Animal abuse: Beyond companion animals and domestic households
Rebecca W.Y. Wong

Chapter 3: The animal cruelty-delinquency relationship: Violence graduation, deviance generalization, or antecedent lifestyle?
Glenn D. Walters

Chapter 4: Animal cruelty and the development of “Link” research between nonhuman and human violence
Suzanne E. Tallichet and Elizabeth Perkins

Chapter 5: Attitudes toward animal abuse and interpersonal relating
Michelle Newberry

Chapter 6: A proposed classification of pathological animal maltreatment
Alan R. Felthous and Marissa Hirsch

Chapter 7: How animal abuse related to interpersonal violence: A review of research in Turkey
Seda Akdemir

Chapter 8: Dog ownership, love, and violentization among young people in the United Kingdom
Jennifer A. Maher

Chapter 9: Instrumental harm toward animals in a Milgram-like experiment in France: The role of non-pathological personality traits
Laurent Bègue and Kevin Vezirian

PART 2- Policy and Practice

Chapter 10: Animal cruelty, the link to interpersonal violence, and the law
Brian Holoyda

Chapter 11: Bestiality: Understanding sex with animals and its forensic relevance
Brian Holoyda

Chapter 12: The role of veterinarians in the recognition of animal cruelty: Lessons from a pilot study in the Netherlands
Anton van Wijk and Nienke Endenburg

Chapter 13: Animal abuse, control, and intimate partner violence
Angus Nurse and Nadine Harding

Chapter 14: Substance abuse and animal maltreatment: An overlooked opportunity for intervention?
Lacey Levitt

Chapter 15: The impact of discretion in the criminal justice system on animal cruelty prosecutions in Hong Kong
Amanda Whitfort, Fiona Woodhouse, Shuping Ho, and Marsha Chun

Conclusion
Rebecca W.Y. Wong and Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan