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Animal Cruelty and Human Violence- The studies show that there is a link between these two forms of abuse. This information was gathered from the Humane Society's First Strike Campaign which provides accurate information and statistics on the topic.

Animal Cruelty and Human Violence: The Connection

- The US Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that in 1996 ther were 9.1 million violent crimes committed in the US.

- A study in 1997 by the MSPCA and Northeastern University found that seventy percent of all animal abusers have committed at least one other criminal offense and that almost forty percent had committed violent crimes against people.

- Forty eight percent of convicted rapists and thirty percent of convicted child molesters admitted, in a 1986 study, that they had perpetrated acts of animal cruelty in their childhood or adolescence.

- A history of animal abuse was found in twenty five percent of agressive male criminals, thirty percent of convicted child molesters, thirty six percent of those who assaulted women and forty six percent of those who committed sexual homicide.

Animal Cruelty and Domestic Violence:

- Every fifteen seconds a woman is battered.

- In three surveys that were conducted by women's shelters in WI ans UT (late 1990's) an average of 74% of pet owning women reported that a pet had been threatened, injured, or killed by their abuser.

- New York's Buffalo Police Depratment and SPCA of Eerie County were able to find that one third of the residences with animal abuse caomplaints also had domestic violence complaints.

- A safehouse in Utah found that twenty percent of women delayed leaving their abusive situation out of fear that their pet would be harmed.

- The same survey found that children witnessed the animal abuse in more than sixty percent of the cases and thirty two percent of women reported that one or more of their children have hurt or killed a pet.

Animal Cruelty and Child Abuse:

- According to a report by the United States Board on Child Abuse and Neglect in 1991, more than 2.5 million American Children suffer from abuse and neglect.

- In a 1983 survey of New Jersey families reported for child abuse, it was found tha in 88% of the families, at least one person abused animals.

- This study also found that in 2/3 of the cases, the abusive parent had injured or killed a pet, and in 1/3 of the cases it was the childen who were the abusers.

- In Great Britain, a study conducted by the Royal SPCA found that 83% of families with a history of animal abuse had also been identified by socila service agencies as at risk for child abuse and neglect.

For more information, visit the Humane Society's web site at: http://www.hsus.org .

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