ASI Diary

Academics, Advocacy and AETA

Scott DeMuth is a graduate student in sociology at the University of Minnesota.  His research focuses on social justice movements, and in the course of his work he has interviewed representatives of radical animal rights organizations.  He came to the attention of federal prosecutors last fall who subpoenaed him to testify before a grand jury investigating a 2004 break-in at the University of Iowa, which damaged animal laboratories and for which the Animal Liberation Front has taken credit.  DeMuth refused to testify and stated that to do so “would violate the trust and confidentiality of those...

Research Nutshell

Anger Management Is Not Enough

A recent study published in the journal Anthrozoos illustrates why anger management may not be the best or most appropriate treatment for animal abusers.

Study Summary:

In "Relations among Need for Power, Affect and Attitudes toward Animal Cruelty" (Anthrozoos, Vol. 22, No. 3, Sept. 2009), Judith C. Oleson and Bill C. Henry gave three attitude questionnaires to 198 psychology students (half male and half female) at the Metropolitan State College of Denver. The measure of "need for power" is a subscale of the Index of Personal Reactions (e.g., "I want to be the one who makes...