Edinburgh Research Explorer Children's attitudes towards animal cruelty Citation for published version: Hawkins, R, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, S & Williams, J 2020, 'Children's attitudes towards animal cruelty: Exploration of predictors and socio-demographic variations', Psychology, Crime and Law, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 226-247. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2019.1652747 Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1080/1068316X.2019.1652747 Link: Link to publication record in Edinburgh Research Explorer Document Version: Peer reviewed version Published In: Psychology, Crime and Law Publisher Rights Statement: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Psychology, Crime & Law on 14 Aug 2019, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1068316X.2019.1652747. General rights Copyright for the publications made accessible via the Edinburgh Research Explorer is retained by the author(s) and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Take down policy The University of Edinburgh has made every reasonable effort to ensure that Edinburgh Research Explorer content complies with UK legislation. If you believe that the public display of this file breaches copyright please contact
[email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 04. Oct. 2021 1 Running head: CHILDREN’S ATTITUDES TOWARDS ANIMAL CRUELTY 2 3 4 Children’s Attitudes towards Animal Cruelty: Exploration of Predictors and Socio- 5 demographic Variations 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1 21 Abstract 22 23 Assessing the risk for animal cruelty is imperative, yet understudied and problematic due to 24 the sensitivity of the topic.