Childhood Cruelty to Animals and Subsequent Violence against Humans

By L. Merz-Perez, K. Heide, I. Silverman. 2001

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An Exploratory Study of Domestic Violence: Perpetrators’ Reports of Violence Against Animals (2018, result): “…expand the extant knowledge of the relationship between the diagnosis of ASPD and AC, and are consistent with early reports from Kellert and Felthous (1985), Felthous and Yudowitz (1977), and Miller and Knutson (1997), as well as more recent studies such as Merz-Perez, Heide, and Silverman (2001).”
Exploring the Link between Recurrent Acts of Childhood and Adolescent Animal Cruelty and Subsequent Violent Crime (2004, background): “Second, although other prison studies dealing with sensitive topics have yielded relatively low response rates (see Felthous, 1980a; Hensley et al., 2000; Hensley et al., 2001; Merz-Perez & Heide, 2003; Merz-Perez et al., 2001), our 12.”
Children And Animals: Exploring The Roots Of Kindness And Cruelty (2005, background): “One study found that 56% of incarcerated adult violent of- fenders had abused animals in the past (Merz-Perez, Heide, and Silvereman 2001; for a more detailed examination, see Merz-Perez and Heide 2004).”