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States Crack Down on Pet Abuse to Protect Women 

Link Between Animal Abuse/Cruelty and Violence
The FBI has known about the link between animal abuse and violence against other persons for years, as they use this information in serial killer profiling.
  • A study of those receiving services for child abuse from the New Jersey public child protection agency found that animals in the home had also been abused in 88 % of the pet–owning families.
  • In two-thirds of those families in New Jersey, the abusive parent had killed or injured the animals to control a child.
  • A survey of women seeking refuge in a Colorado Springs domestic violence shelter found 23.8% had observed animal cruelty by their abusers. A similar study in Utah found 71% of battered women with pets reporting that their animals had been threatened, harmed, or killed by their abusers.
  • Another study of battered women’s shelters found more than 60% of shelter directors reporting that children disclosed pets being hurt or killed.
  • Of those individuals who abuse animals:

 

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              38% are more likely to be   involved in violent crime
                  44% are more likely to be involved in property damage crime
                  37% are more likey to be involved in drug related crime
 
 

 

 

  • Almost universally, males are perpetrators of animal abuse- 97% of the cases are adolescent young males involved in anti-social behavior and have a need for power and control.
  • Of 101 women sheltered, 25% said they delayed the abusive situation for fear of leaving their pets.

 

 
 
 


 

 
 
 
 
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