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The importance of the link between animal cruelty and interpersonal violence was presented and indicated the importance of collaboration between law enforcement, animal control, legal, medical, veterinary, and mental health professionals. The section also summarized the “violence graduation hypothesis,” which was based on the McDonald triad as compared to the “deviance generalization hypothesis,” which posits that one form of social deviance can lead to other forms of social deviance. In addition, it is important to note that the link is a not a simple causal or correlational relationship.
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Hoffer, T., Hargreaves-Cormany, H., Muirhead, Y., Meloy, J.R. (2018). Description of the Problem of Animal Cruelty and Its Association with Interpersonal Violence. In: Violence in Animal Cruelty Offenders. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91038-3_10
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