The Link Between Animal Abuse and Human Violence

by Andrew Linzey

Book Overview

Many philosophers, including Aquinas, Locke, Schopenhauer and Kant, have assumed that there is a link between cruelty to animals and violence to people. During the last 40 years, evidence for this view has steadily accumulated as a result of statistical, psychological, and medical investigations, and there is now a substantial body of supporting empirical evidence. "The Link Between Animal Abuse & Human Violence" brings together international experts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845193245
• ISBN13: 9781845193249
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"