Published: 2022-02-14

Perpetrators of Aggression and Violence Against Animals: from Personality, Situational and Social Factors to Psychopathy and Anti-Social Personality Disorde

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Abstract

Ewa Czerwińska-Jakimiuk’s aim in this article is to discuss selected aspects of human aggression and violence against animals. She presents definitions of aggression and violence, a description of these phenomena, and the results of selected empirical studies. These studies take into account the socio-demographic characteristics of the perpetrators of violence against animals, the most common personality disorders, criminal behavior, legal actions taken against them, and – in the case of children and adolescents using violence against animals – the causes and correlates of the phenomenon, motivational background and effects. Further in the article, Czerwińska-Jakimiuk analyzes the factors most often correlating with aggression and violence as a personality trait (e.g., aggressiveness, fear, self-control, and empathy) and as a situational-social phenomenon (e.g., frustration, relative deprivation, and social learning) as well as psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder.

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Czerwińska-Jakimiuk, E. (2022). Perpetrators of Aggression and Violence Against Animals: from Personality, Situational and Social Factors to Psychopathy and Anti-Social Personality Disorde. Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies, (1 (9), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2022.09.05

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No. 1 (9) (2022)
Published: 2022-06-30


ISSN: 2719-2687
eISSN: 2451-3849
Ikona DOI 10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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