Linking Animal Cruelty and Family Violence
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Linking Animal Cruelty and Family Violence By Lisa Anne Zilney

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Table of Contents

List of Figures

ix

List of Tables

xi

Foreword by Donald W. Hastings, Ph.D.

xiii

Preface by Mary Zilney, MSW, RSW

xix

Acknowledgments

xxv

Introduction

xxix

Chapter 1 THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS

1

Criminology and Environmental Sociology

1

Chapter 2 STUDY METHODOLOGY

13

Hypotheses

13

Data Collection

16

Operationalizations

19

Independent Variables

22

Background Variables

22

Deviance

23

Attitudes Toward Nonhumans

24

Attitudes Toward Women

25

Dependent Variables

27

Abuse of Nonhumans

27

Abuse of Humans

28

The Sample as an Estimate of the Population

31

Chapter 3 ABUSE OF NONHUMANS

37

The Growth of Animal Rights

37

Animals and the Law

44