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This 3 page paper provides an overview of an experiment on the impacts of animal cruelty and hunting in childhood on adult criminal behaviors. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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File: MH11_MHanimcru.doc
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hypotheses for this study are: H(1): Participants reporting acts of animal cruelty in childhood demonstrate greater levels of violent criminality as compared to participants who do not report animal cruelty
in childhood. H(2): Participants reporting frequent hunting in childhood demonstrate greater levels of violent criminality as compared to participants who do not report hunting in childhood. The
null hypothesis for this study is: Participants reporting acts of animal cruelty and hunting in childhood show no difference in the level of violent criminality as compared to those
who do not repotting animal cruelty or hunting. Method The research design to be used in this project causal-comparative study and quantitative, and will focus on the comparison
of a subject (those who participate in animal cruelty and hunting) and control group population (those who did not participate in animal cruelty or hunting) in order to determine the
impacts of the independent variables (animal cruelty or hunting) on the dependent variable (violent criminality). Sampling and Group Assignment The sampling for project will be based on convenience
sampling, because the subjects must meet a very specific criterion. The subjects will be selected from populations who have been convicted of a range of criminal offenses and have
been sentenced to incarceration. Individuals will be asked to participate in an assessment of animal cruelty and hunting and will be assigned to the subject or control group based
on their self-reports of animal cruelty/hunting. After assignment, evaluation of each subjects criminal record will be introduced, to assess the presence or absence of violence as a component of
their criminal behaviors. Comparisons will be made between the level of violence enacted by those reporting animal cruelty or hunting behaviors in childhood and those who did not note
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