Self-selection policing and animal cruelty: Investigating animal cruelty as an indicator of more serious and active criminality.
Journal: University of Huddersfield Repository (University of Huddersfield)
Year: 2020

Self-selection policing involves using the more minor crimes individuals commit to identify active, serious offenders. The present study aimed to investigate animal cruelty as a potential crime to be used for this purpose. To be effective, this required offenders to be versatile and commit both minor and serious offences, as well as being active around the time the animal cruelty offence was committed. Fifty-three criminal records of animal cruelty offenders were acquired from a police force, an