Book Reflection Paper: Understanding Animal Abuse

SYA 4930 Animals and Society w/ Carreno-Lukasik

 Book Reflection Paper: Understanding Animal Abuse

This paper needs to be a minimum of 1000 words, typed and doublespaced.  Papers that do not meet the minimum word count will not be accepted.  At the top of the paper please put your name and word count, then number and answer the questions below.  In addition to submitting your paper via Canvas, you must turn in a hard copy of your paper in the beginning of class the day it is due; no later papers and no emailed papers will be accepted.

• How do we define animal abuse?
• Why should we study animal abuse?
• Why are individual-level explanations of animal abuse inadequate?
• Explain social factors that are correlated with animal abuse.
• Explain the connection between animal abuse and human violence.
• Describe Agnew’s social-psychological theory of animal abuse.
• How has research on animal abuse been anthropocentric and speciesist?
• Propose a study examining animal abuse that would NOT be anthropocentric and speciesist.