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Motivations are difficult to measure since they rely on a combination of self-report from the offender, victim, crime scene, and act of violence. Animal victims cannot share their views of the offender’s behavior. Felthous (1986) noted that motivation is important to understand and along with Kellert presented nine motivations for animal cruelty.
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Hoffer, T., Hargreaves-Cormany, H., Muirhead, Y., Meloy, J.R. (2018). Motivations of Animal Cruelty Acts and Other Violence. In: Violence in Animal Cruelty Offenders. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91038-3_13
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