The relations among animal abuse, psychological disorders, and crime: Implications for forensic assessment

Ascione, Frank R.; McDonald, Shelby E.; Tedeschi, Philip; Williams, James H.

doi:10.1002/bsl.2370

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“…89,90 The Dark Triad significantly relates to psychopathy. The correlation of animal cruelty as well as the onset and probable influences to engage in animal cruelty can be understood by reviewing Ascione et al, 6 and Johnson. 7 Animal cruelty is a hallmark of psychopathy.…”

Section: The Dark Triadmentioning

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Understanding the violent personality: antisocial personality disorder, psychopathy, & sociopathy explored

Johnson¹

2019

FRCIJ

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The Violent personality I will refer to the violent personality as one that involves a variety of factors and background, including the following factors supported by the literature Table 1. Some of the factors mentioned above appear to be ignored in general violent risk and court ordered assessments of offenders who engage in domestic abuse (any type of relational violence) and sexual offense crimes. Below is a summary to further explain their relevance.

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Section: The Dark Triadmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the violent personality: antisocial personality disorder, psychopathy, & sociopathy explored

Johnson¹

2019

FRCIJ

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“…The definition of animal abuse (AA) that is now widely used in the academic literature to describe the symptom of conduct disorder (CD), that is analogous to the maltreatment of children, but perpetrated against animals, is "…non accidental, socially unacceptable behavior that causes pain, suffering or distress to and/or the death of an animal" (Ascione et al 2018;Ascione and Shapiro 2009). It is important to know about incidents of animal cruelty happening in our communities, not only because animal cruelty is a crime in all 50 states in the U.S. (Schaffner 2011), but also because, as noted above, there are many studies suggesting that those who engage in animal cruelty are also more likely to commit other crimes (Hoffer et al 2018;Ascione et al 2018;Johnson 2018). Previous work has shown that people who engage in animal cruelty have often been victims, themselves, of child abuse or have experienced other forms of family violence, such as witnessing another person committing an act of animal cruelty.…”

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“…Interest in the subject has grown in recent years, as more and more studies have revealed the links between those who engage in non-human animal (heretofore "animal") maltreatment and violence against people. By identifying crimes that co-occur with animal cruelty, it is thought that law enforcement officials could have another tool to try and prevent both animal cruelty and human violence (Hoffer et al 2018;Johnson 2018;Ascione et al 2018;Heide and Felthous 2018;Arkow and Lockwood 2016).…”

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Using the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) to Study Animal Cruelty: Preliminary Results (2016–2019)

Palais

2021

Social Sciences

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On 1 January 2016, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began collecting data on crimes involving animal cruelty from law enforcement agencies that participate in the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) in the United States (U.S.). Prior to 2016, such crimes either went unreported or were lumped into an “all other offenses” category, making it difficult to understand who was committing these crimes and whether there were any connections between crimes perpetrated against animals and crimes in which there was a human victim. Animal cruelty has cruelty has been linked to certain types of human violence and, therefore, it is important for authorities to know more about the people committing these crimes. Preliminary results from an analysis of the first four years (2016–2019) of data are presented. The age and gender of animal cruelty offenders, the time of day when most crimes occur, and the most common locations where offenses take place are presented. The type of animal cruelty involved and details of the other crimes that co-occur with animal cruelty are discussed. The limitations of the data are shared and recommendations are made about other types of data that could be collected in the future to add value to the data.

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“…His research assessed the connection between animal cruelty to mental illness and, some researchers do similar research. Recently, animal cruelty became the current topic in DSM next edition, IV, IV-TR dan V, APA 1994, 2000(Ascione, McDonald, Tedeschi, & Williams, 2018.…”

Section: Animal Cruelty and Psychological Disorders Conduct Disorder (Cd)mentioning

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Are Childhood Cruelty to Animals Indicates as Mental Disorder?

Juliadilla

Noveni

2021

PJPRH

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Animal Cruelty regularly happened during childhood that indicates beyond cruelty to humans. Cruelty to animals distinguishes some steps: curiosity, exploration, imitates or even the aggressive act refers to animal cruelty. The ignorance toward these aggressive acts led to Conduct Disorder or even Antisocial Personality Disorder. Animal Cruelty reached an agreement as to the unethical act with intentional tortures, unintentionally suffering causes death. Cruelty is done on purpose and with intentional time. This research aims as a reference for animal cruelty in childhood by proposing some research summary in (1) Animal Cruelty framework, (2) Animal Cruelty relation among child abuse and domestic violence; (3) Developmental Psychology reference: Children aggressive acts toward animal; (4) animal cruelty and psychology disorder and (5) clinical pathway childhood cruelty to animals. The research conducts a literature review by describing a theory, discussion, and results from textbooks, articles, and journals. The researcher analyzed, compared the results taken from some literature, identifies the pros and cons, and proposing findings and discussions. In conclusion, animal cruelty defines as a crucial marker for mental health that relates to Conduct Disorder to Antisocial Personality Disorder. The role of adults is vital in minimizing children's acts for committing animal cruelty by nurturing empathy. Adults with its role particularly required during the early stages of a child's development when adults' affirmation related to behavioral aspects of morality is necessary for children. Furthermore, character education for children consider as broad topics that not only about the animals, but the most important thing is for animals when children would learn justice, and ethics to treat animals generously. Keywords: Animal Cruelty, Childhood, Conduct Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder

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The relations among animal abuse, psychological disorders, and crime: Implications for forensic assessment

Cited by 9 publications

References 94 publications

Understanding the violent personality: antisocial personality disorder, psychopathy, & sociopathy explored

Understanding the violent personality: antisocial personality disorder, psychopathy, & sociopathy explored

Using the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) to Study Animal Cruelty: Preliminary Results (2016–2019)

Are Childhood Cruelty to Animals Indicates as Mental Disorder?

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