This paper examines the relationship between childhood cruelty toward animals and
aggressive behavior among criminals and noncriminals in adulthood. Data were derived from …

Studies of the effects of phenytoin on aggression have produced equivocal results primarily
because of a lack of (1) common objective criterion measures of aggressive acts across …

The existing literature on the relationship between childhood cruelty to animals and later
violence against people appears to be inconsistent. The authors review the controlled studies …

Although the rate of combined homicide-suicides is low compared with that for suicide alone
or homicide, homicide-suicides generate much public concern. In some cases, the homicide…

Animal cruelty in childhood, although generally viewed as abnormal or deviant, for years was
not considered symptomatic of any particular psychiatric disorder. Although animal cruelty …

In order to investigate the nature of animal cruelty in childhood two groups of male psychiatric
patients were compared: an Animal Cruelty Group and an Assaultive Group. Most in both …

An association between childhood cruelty to animals and dangerous aggression against
people at a later age could have important implications regarding early detection and treatment…

Science can provide more information about the nature of aggressive acts, and therefore the
mens rea of criminal offenses, than is commonly assumed. For example, progress has been …

The goal of the study was to examine psychopathology and stressors suffered by suicide
victims, and to describe the characteristics of the suicides in the Texas Department of Criminal …

Originally a hedge against the death penalty, the insanity defense came to offer hospitalization
as an alternative to imprisonment. In the late 19th century Italy opened inpatient services …