Introduction -- Historical Background of Animal Cruelty -- Attachment -- Empathy -- General Violence -- Meloy’s Biopsychosocial Model of Violence -- Meloy’s Bimodal Theory of Affective (Reactive) and Predatory (Instrumental) Violence -- The Relationship Between Violence, Antisocial Personality Disorder and Psychopathy -- Interpersonal Violence -- Description of the Problem of Animal Cruelty and Its Association with Interpersonal Violence -- The Relationship Between Family Violence and Animal Cruelty -- Predicting Risk of Animal Cruelty and other Violence -- Motivations of Animal Cruelty Acts and Other Violence -- Methods -- Material -- Results -- Discussion -- Case Example of Affective Animal Cruelty Offenses -- Case Example of Predatory Animal Cruelty Offenses -- Comparison of Affective and Predatory Offenders -- Suggestions -- Conclusion -- Limitations and Strengths.