Link Between Animal Abuse and Human Violence

This book is about the link between animal abuse and human violence

It provides critical overviews of existing research;

examines the latest evidence;

addresses the underlying ethical issues;

features research by up-and-coming scholars as well as accomplished researchers;

considers the implications for legal policy and the work of key professionals;

offers a special focus on the experts from seven countries: Australia, Denmark, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, as well as the US, and the UK.

Many philosophers, including Aquinas, Locke, Schopenhauer and Kant, have assumed that there is a link between cruelty to animals and violence to people. During the last 40 years, evidence for this view has steadily accumulated as a result of statistical, psychological, and medical investigations, and there is now a substantial body of supporting empirical evidence.

The Link Between Animal Abuse and Human Violence brings together international experts from seven countries to examine in detail the relationships between animal abuse and child abuse, the emotional development of the child, family violence, and serial murder. It considers the implications for legal and social policy, and the work of key professionals. Sections include critical overviews of existing research, discussion of ethical issues, and a special focus on the abuse of wild animals.

This book is essential reading for all those who have a stake in the debate, either because their academic work relates to the issues involved, or because their professional role involves contact with the abused or the abusers, both human and animal, including child care officers, community carers, law enforcement officers, healthvisitors, veterinarians, anti-cruelty inspectors, animal protection officers, social scientists, lawyers, psychologists, and criminologists. This book is the most up to date, authoritative, and comprehensive volume on the link between animal abuse and human violence.