Childhood Bestiality: A Potential Precursor to Adult Interpersonal Violence

Autor/inn/en	Hensley, Christopher; Tallichet, Suzanne E.; Dutkiewicz, Erik L.
Titel	Childhood Bestiality: A Potential Precursor to Adult Interpersonal Violence
Quelle	In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 25 (2010) 3, S.557-567 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0886-2605
DOI	10.1177/0886260509360988
Schlagwörter	Violence; Correctional Institutions; Children; Institutionalized Persons; Mental Disorders; Animals; Correlation; Interpersonal Relationship; Males; Racial Differences; Place of Residence; Educational Attainment; Crime; Homicide; Rape; Sexuality + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gewalt; Jugendstrafvollzug; Child; Kind; Kinder; Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Korrelation; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Rassenunterschied; Wohnort; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Mord; Sexueller Missbrauch; Sexuelle Gewalt; Vergewaltigung; Sexualität
Abstract	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. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10