Interpersonal Violence

Hoffer, Tia A.; Hargreaves-Cormany, Holly; Muirhead, Yvonne; Meloy, J Reid

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91038-3_9

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“…Given the limited attention to race for those engaged in animal cruelty case overall and the lack of information on racial differences across intentional cruelty and neglect, this study provides much-needed initial insights. The present findings confirm racial patterns from two previous studies (Hoffer et al, 2018; Vaughn et al, 2009). This study also extends this work by comparing intentional cruelty and neglect incidents.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

“…Of these co-occurring incidents, more intentional abuse incidents than neglect occurred with a violent crime. This pattern has support from previous studies that found violent crimes tended to occur most frequently with intentional abuse (Hoffer et al, 2018; A. Soeldner, personal communication, July 20, 2021).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

“…Approximately seven studies noted modal or average ages of those committing animal cruelty offenses and derived these from adult populations and found a range of average ages from 31 to 35.7 (Longobardi & Badenes-Ribera, 2019). One particularly informative study conducted by the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) identified, collected, and reviewed law enforcement case files from 41 states of individuals arrested for animal cruelty acts and examined their criminal histories (Hoffer et al, 2018). The FBI BAU study included 259 active animal cruelty cases and found these ages of those committing animal cruelty ranged from 18 to 82, with a mean age of 34 years.…”

Section: Previous Research On Patterns Of Neglect and Intentional Ani...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Those that have examined race or ethnicity find the vast majority are White, which is proportionate with the U.S. population. For example, the FBI BAU study mentioned above (Hoffer et al, 2018) found 78.8% of those arrested for animal abuse crimes were White and 12.2% were Black. A national epidemiological study (Vaughn et al, 2009) found a similar pattern.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A study of juveniles confirms these findings with younger males and mixed gender samples (Walters, 2013). In the FBI BAU study (Hoffer et al, 2018), 60% of subjects committed interpersonal violence before, concurrently, and after animal cruelty offense. In addition, 73.4% of the subjects were arrested for some other offense.…”

Section: Previous Research On Patterns Of Neglect and Intentional Ani...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Intentional Cruelty Versus Neglect: New Insights on Animal Cruelty Crimes and Implications for Policy

Addington

Randour

2022

Criminal Justice Policy Review

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Animal cruelty has received growing scholarly attention over the past few decades. One ongoing challenge for researchers has been the lack of readily accessible data. This situation changed in 2014 with the addition of animal cruelty offenses to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program as part of its National Incident-Based Reporting System. In addition to providing a much-needed source of animal cruelty information, these data shed light on two distinct forms of cruelty: intentional animal abuse and neglect. Previous research tended to group both forms of cruelty together, which limited the ability of these findings to inform the development of targeted prevention and intervention policies. The present study is one of the first to examine the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s animal cruelty data and to distinguish between neglect and intentional cruelty. The findings obtained are discussed in terms of application to policy and guidance for future work.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Section: Previous Research On Patterns Of Neglect and Intentional Ani...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Previous Research On Patterns Of Neglect and Intentional Ani...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Previous Research On Patterns Of Neglect and Intentional Ani...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Comparison of Police Data on Animal Cruelty and the Perception of Animal Welfare NGOs in Hungary

Lorászkó

Vetter

Rácz

et al. 2023

Animals

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Animal cruelty has been a criminal offence in Hungary since 2004 and the legislator has tightened and differentiated the regulations in several waves since then. However, it is not an exaggeration to say that the public is often impatient and dissatisfied with the actions of the authorities in relation to animal cruelty. In our research, based on the data of the Criminal Investigation Department of the National Police Headquarters, we examined the opinions of 99 out of a total of 155 police stations in Hungary whose staff currently working there had experience in dealing with animal cruelty. The investigators gave their opinion on a total of 1169 cases in which some kind of police action was taken, either following a report to the police or as a result of their own investigative actions. In another survey, we questioned those members of society who are most committed to animal protection using a self-completion questionnaire. The questionnaire sent to the 116 Hungarian animal welfare non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on the publicly available lists was also posted for a short period on the social networking site of NGO activists. Among those who responded, a total of 150 identified as active participants in the animal protection work of these NGOs. The picture of the police treatment of animal cruelty, as perceived by NGOs working in the field of animal protection, is significantly less favourable than suggested by the police data. According to the official data, 77.7% of reports initiated an investigation, while the vast majority of animal welfare activists (81.3%) suspects that only 25% of the reports result in action by the prosecuting authority.

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Interpersonal Violence

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Intentional Cruelty Versus Neglect: New Insights on Animal Cruelty Crimes and Implications for Policy

Intentional Cruelty Versus Neglect: New Insights on Animal Cruelty Crimes and Implications for Policy

Comparison of Police Data on Animal Cruelty and the Perception of Animal Welfare NGOs in Hungary

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