Animal Cruelty Topic

Animal Cruelty has been something that has interested me for a very long time, there are many different cases and all over the world animal cruelty cases are documented. To take the subject more in depth I would like to find out the connection between children who are exposed to animal cruelty and who are the ones conducting the animal cruelty and how it effects them mentally and growing up.( does this behavior create a criminal mindset?)