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Dadds, Mark R.; Whiting, Clare; Hawes, David J. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2006
Previous research has produced mixed findings on the role of child and family factors in the genesis of childhood cruelty. The authors examined the relationships of cruelty to animals to a range of child and family factors. First, the authors test the idea that cruelty is a callous aggression that will be more strongly associated with psychopathic…
Descriptors: Family Problems, Child Rearing, Empathy, Conflict
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Smallbone, Stephen W.; Dadds, Mark R. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1998
Forty-eight incarcerated sex offenders were compared with 16 property offenders and 16 nonoffenders on self-report measures of childhood maternal and paternal attachment and adult attachment. Results suggest that insecure childhood attachments may be related to offending behavior generally and that certain combinations of childhood attachment…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Development, Correctional Institutions, Criminals