Childhood Bestiality

Journal of Interpersonal Violence - Tập 25 Số 3 - Trang 557-567 - 2010
Christopher Hensley1, Suzanne E. Tallichet2, Erik L. Dutkiewicz3
1University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN 37403, USA. [email protected]
2Morehead State University, KY
3University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Tóm tắt

Although bestiality is an infrequent form of animal cruelty, the possibility of identifying a potential link between these acts and later interpersonal violence is an area of research that deserves further exploration. In a replication of the Hensley, Tallichet, and Singer study and based on survey data from male inmates at a medium- and maximum-security prison in a southern state, the present investigation examines whether inmates who engaged in childhood bestiality ( n = 23) differ from those who did not ( n = 157) in terms of race, childhood residence, education, commission of a personal crime (murder, rape, robbery, aggravated/simple assault), and the number of personal crimes committed. The results revealed that respondents who had engaged in childhood bestiality were more likely to commit adult interpersonal crimes on two or more occasions as compared to those who had not engaged in bestiality. These findings lend further support to the sexually polymorphous theory that childhood bestiality may be a potential precursor to adult interpersonal violence.

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Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Tập 25 Số 3

557-567

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