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The section on attachment summarized the basic attachment styles that develop in childhood and continue to impact people through adulthood. In addition, it suggests that some acts of animal cruelty are impacted by the relationship the offender has to the animal victim or to the owner of the animal victim.
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Hoffer, T., Hargreaves-Cormany, H., Muirhead, Y., Meloy, J.R. (2018). Attachment. In: Violence in Animal Cruelty Offenders. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91038-3_3
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