Animal sacrifice as a form of zoological violence.

Abstract

The socio-psychological content of violence committed with the use of animals is considered. The definition of zoological violence is given. An analysis is made of one of the initial forms of this phenomenon in human activity - animal sacrifice. Attention is paid to the religious, ethnocultural and mythological aspects of the problem. It is concluded that the use of animals when committing coercion against other people is a model for the commission of various crimes.