Violence in Animal Cruelty Offenders Introduction Historical Background of Animal Cruelty Attachment Empathy General Violence Meloy’s Biopsychosocial Model of Violence Meloy’s Bimodal Theory of Affective (Reactive) and Predatory (Instrumental) Violence The Relationship Between Violence Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy Interpersonal Violence Description of the Problem of Animal Cruelty and Its Association with Interpersonal Violence The Relationship Between Family Violence and Animal Cruelty Predicting Risk of Animal Cruelty and other Violence Motivations of Animal Cruelty Acts and Other Violence Methods Material Results Discussion Case Example of Affective Animal Cruelty Offenses Case Example of Predatory Animal Cruelty Offenses Comparison of Affective and Predatory Offenders Suggestions Conclusion Limitations and Strengths This book presents results from a BAU study including 259 active animal cruelty cases. In addition there were a total of 495 animal victims including numerous species but dogs (64%) were the predominant animal victim. The offenders were all male ranging in age from 17 years old to 82 years old (mean age of 34 years) and 73.44% had arrests for various other crimes prior to and or following the instant animal cruelty arrest. Sixty percent of the offenders had been arrested for interpersonal violence prior concurrent and or post the instant active animal cruelty incident