• Animal Abuse and Human Violence—SOTAL

http://www.vin.com/VINDBPub/SearchPB/Proceedings/PR05000/PR00023.htm
A decade ago, stories of animal cruelty and human violence attracted little media attention and were not a significant part of American popular culture. There was comparatively little professional interest in the topic outside of the animal care and control community and only limited discussion of the issue within the professions most directly affected by the abuse of animals and its links to other forms of violence, namely mental health, criminal justice, and veterinary medicine (Lockwood, 1999). The situation has changed dramatically in recent years.
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• Pet-Abuse.com

http://www.pet-abuse.com/
Pet-Abuse.Com is a national animal protection organization that researches and tracks incidents of criminal animal cruelty.
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• Animal Abuse and Youth Violence

http://www.ncjrs.gov/html/ojjdp/jjbul2001_9_2/contents.html
Juvenile Justice Bulletin describing the psychiatric, psychological, and criminal research linking animal abuse to violence perpetrated by juveniles and adults.
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• Understanding The Link® Between Animal Abuse and Family Violence

http://www.americanhumane.org/site/PageServer?pagename=nr_fact_sheets_link
A correlation between animal abuse, family violence and other forms of community violence has been established. Child and animal protection professionals have recognized this link, noting that abuse of both children and animals is connected in a self-perpetuating cycle of violence. When animals in a home are abused or neglected, it is a warning sign that others in the household may not be safe. In addition, children who witness animal abuse are at a greater risk of becoming abusers themselves.
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• What We Know About the Link Between Animal Abuse

http://www.21stcenturycares.org/links.htm
Because of the success of many animal advocacy groups, including the two that I represent —Psychologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Doris Day Animal Foundation — many professionals from a variety of disciplines as well as the general public have become aware of the link between animal abuse and human violence.
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• Why We Shouldn’t Tolerate Animal Cruelty

http://www.geocities.com/sweetkittie_2000/ac.html?200821
Lists people who have either practiced animal cruelty or witnessed it and have gone on to commit murder of human beings.
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• Animal Welfare and Domestic Violence

http://new.vawnet.org/Assoc_Files_VAWnet/AnimalWelfareDV.pdf
This study represents the first attempt to assess animal maltreatment in samples of women seeking safety at shelters for women who are battered (101 women) and community samples of women who were not battered (60 women).
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• The Abuse of Animals and Domestic Violence: A National Survey of Shelters for Women Who Are Battered

http://www.vachss.com/guest_dispatches/ascione_1.html
The maltreatment of animals, usually pets, may occur in homes where there is domestic violence yet we have limited information about the prevalence of such maltreatment. We surveyed the largest shelter for women who are battered in forty-nine states and the District of Columbia.
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• DAs Link Pet Abuse, Domestic Violence

http://www.vachss.com/help_text/archive/pets_dv_nydn.html
Thirty-five New Yorkers who were never punished for beating their lovers are now in jail—or in therapy—because they abused the family pet.
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• Violent Behavior Animal abuse at early age linked to interpersonal violence

http://www.childresearch.net/RESOURCE/NEWS/2000/200003.HTM
Jeffrey Dahmer. Son of Sam. Ted Bundy. The boys who gunned down their classmates at school. The shooter of U.S. Capitol security guards. These men and boys had something in common beyond their acts of terrifying violence: All had abused animals long before they went on to destroy the lives of other people.
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• First Strike: The Connection Between Animal Cruelty and Human Violence

http://www.hsus.org/hsus_field/first_strike_the_connection_between_animal_cruelty_and_human_violence/index.html
The First Strike® campaign was created in 1997 to raise public and professional awareness about the connection between animal cruelty and other violent crime violence and to help communities identify some of the origins of violence, predict its patterns, and prevent its escalation.
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• Animal Abuse: Misdemeanor or Felony?

http://www.lisaviolet.com/cathouse/cruelty.html
Chart showing which states consider first time offensives a misdemeanor or felony crime.
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• 911 Animal Abuse

http://www.911animalabuse.com/
This site is set up as a portal to a site powered by “social networking” software that allows you to join and post your photos, videos and opinions.
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• Animal Legal Defense Fund Releases 2007 State Animal Protection Laws Rankings November 2007

http://www.aldf.org/assets/591_2007staterankingsreport.pdf
The Animal Legal Defense Fund announces the release of its second annual report ranking every state and the District of Columbia on the relative strength and general comprehensiveness of their animal protection laws. This report, the only one of its kind in the nation, is based on a detailed comparative analysis of the animal protection laws of each jurisdiction, researching fourteen distinct categories of provisions throughout more than 2800 pages of statutes.
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• The Vicious Circle

http://www.ddal.org/pdf/guardian/Vicious%20Circle.pdf
Four schools, twelve dead and forty-four wounded in just the seven months from last October to this May. We are becoming accustomed to images of sobbing
children, frightened parents, and silent boys being hauled off to prison in shackles. And every t ime it happens reporters, parents, administrators and survivors ask the same quest ion: “Why?”
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• HSUS First Strike® Campaign 2003 Report of Animal Cruelty Cases

http://files.hsus.org/web-files/PDF/2003AnimalCrueltyRprt.pdf
Since 2000, The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has compiled reports of highprofile cases of animal cruelty and neglect from across the country. The following report covers incidents committed from January through December 2003. It contains available information on the animal cruelty offenses, demographics of animal abusers, types of animals abused, and other factors such as the incidence of family violence.
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• Frequently Asked Questions about Animal Cruelty

http://www.hsus.org/hsus_field/first_strike_the_connection_between_animal_cruelty_and_human_violence/frequently_asked_questions_about_animal_cruelty.html
Animal cruelty encompasses a range of behaviors harmful to animals, from neglect to malicious killing. Most cruelty investigated by humane officers is unintentional neglect that can be resolved through education. Intentional cruelty, or abuse, is knowingly depriving an animal of food, water, shelter, socialization, or veterinary care or maliciously torturing, maiming, mutilating, or killing an animal.
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• Battered Women’s Reports of Their Partners’ and Their Children’s Cruelty to Animals

http://new.vawnet.org/Assoc_Files_VAWnet/BWPetCruelty.pdf
Anecdotal reports of cruelty to pet animals in families where partner battering occurs are common but there exist few empirical data on this issue. Determining the forms and prevalence of such cruelty is important since abuse of pets may be a method batterers use to control their partners, may be related to batterers’ lethality, and may result in children in such families being exposed to multiple forms of violence, a significant risk for mental health problems. Thirty-eight women seeking shelter at a safe house for battered partners voluntarily completed surveys about pet ownership and violence to pets.
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• Safe Havens for Pets: Guidelines for Programs Sheltering Pets for Women Who Are Battered

http://www.vachss.com/guest_dispatches/ascione_safe_havens.pdf
Anyone who has worked in the Domestic Violence field knows of cases where a victim chose to remain with a batterer rather than abandon a beloved pet, because so many DV Shelters will not allow those fleeing a violent situation to bring their pets with them. Dr. Frank Ascione, the world’s leading authority on the connections between animal abuse, child abuse, and domestic violence, has provided a real solution in his ground-breaking Safe Havens for Pets.
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• Animal Precinct

http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/animalprecinct/animalprecinct.html
Animal Precinct, narrated by Michael Madsen, chronicles the drama, emotion, triumph and tragedy of the work of the agents of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal’s (ASPCA) Humane Law Enforcement Department (HLE), the only law enforcement group in New York City solely devoted to investigating crimes against New York’s animal population.
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