Publications

The aims of this report are four-fold:

• To examine the prevalence and frequency of animal abuse during adolescence and compare this with involvement in other forms of both violent and nonviolent delinquent behaviours;
• To investigate a broad range of characteristics amongst those who get involved in animal abuse, other violent behaviour, non-violent offending and nonoffenders;
• To identify how offending trajectories of abuse against animals develop over time and compare this to trajectories of interpersonal violence;
• And to isolate those characteristics that best explain different animal abuse offending trajectories.