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Men In Prison Have Been Found To Seldom Have Had A Pet They Loved As A Child

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Childhood Animal Cruelty A Common Link Among Violent Criminals Research has shown that a strong correlation exists between substantial animal abuse in childhood and later violence to humans. Most criminals who have been violent toward people share a common history of cruelty to animals. Here is a sample of some of the research the American Humane Association has gathered on the correlation between child abuse and animal cruelty. This data should alert researchers, prosecutors, judges, and other societal leaders to the importance of animal cruelty as a potential indicator of disturbed family relationships and future anti-social and aggressive behavior towards humans. Research of Alan Felthous and Stephen Kellert The research of Felthous and Kellert focused on the possible associations of childhood cruelty toward animals and aggressive behavior toward humans among criminals in adolescence and adulthood. Felthous and Kellert studied 152 aggressive and nonaggressive criminals, most of whom came from violent homes. They discovered that the majority of criminals had shown severe, repetitive cruelty toward animals as children, and that the subjects reported 373 acts involving some degree of undue harm, violence, or cruelty toward animals. Felthous and Kellert suggest: Violence against pets may be an indicator of other forms of family violence. Physical abuse of a child may result in the child abusing animals and exhibiting other aggressive behavior against people which may persist into adulthood. A child who learns aggression against living creatures is more likely to rape, abuse, and kill other humans as an adult. Aggression among adult criminals may be strongly correlated with a history of family abuse and childhood cruelty toward animals. Research of Daniel S. Hellman, M.D. and Nathan Blackman, M.D. Researchers Hellman and Blackman noted the frequent association between criminal violence in adulthood and a triad of symptoms (excessive bed-wetting, fire-setting, and animal abuse) during childhood. In a study of 84 prisoners, 75 percent of the 31 prisoners charged with aggressive crimes had the symptom triad whereas only 15 percent of the 53 involved in non-aggressive crimes had the triad or even a part of the triad. Research of Elizabeth Deviney, Jeffrey Dickert, and Randall Lockwood In a study of 57 families being treated by New Jersey's Division of Youth and Family Service for incidents of child abuse, researchers Deviney, Dickert, and Lockwood found animal cruelty was "the sign of a deeply disturbed family." In 88 percent of these families where physical abuse to children had occurred, animals in the home had also been abused. In about two-thirds of those cases, it was the abusive parent who had killed or injured the animal to discipline the child. In one-third of those cases, it was the children who were the abusers, using animals as scapegoats for their anger. Research of Michael Robin, Robert W. ten Bensel, Quigley, and Anderson Since many family members have close bonds to their pets, these animals can become the targets of abuse intended to hurt a person. In a study of abused children, researchers found that a high proportion of delinquent adolescents had owned pets to which they were closely attached, but which had been killed by a parent or guardian. Their studies found: 34 percent of abused children had their special pet killed by a parent versus only 12 percent of non-delinquent youths. 20 percent of the abused children's pets had been killed intentionally versus 10 percent of non-delinquent youths. 17 percent of abused children said they had abused their animals themselves versus 10 percent of the regular population. Other studies have shown: Adult sexual homicide perpetrators who report being sexually abused as children reported higher rates of childhood animal cruelty (58%) than perpetrators not reporting sexual abuse (15%). In 60 to 80 percent of families where the male hits the female, there will also be abuse of children and probably companion animals as well. A study of 37 adult clients diagnosed with disassociation disorders noted that all of the clients reported witnessing animal mutilations or killing as part of their own childhood abuse experiences.

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Human/Animal Abuse Connection

• A recent Newsweek article titled "Why the Young Kill," reports juvenile homicide is twice as common today as it was in the mid-1980s. Bad parenting, media and societal violence, and America's gun culture are the chief culprits.
  
   

• People who abuse animals rarely stop there. As reported by Psychologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, animals are abused in 88 percent of families in which children are abused.
  
   

• Tragically, the link between animal abuse and human violence is well established. Serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, "Son of Sam" David Berkowitz, the "Boston Strangler" Albert DeSalvo, and other notorious criminals began their murderous careers by abusing animals.
  
   

• Childhood animal abuse has become an accurate predictor of future violence against humans. Consider this: It has been confirmed that the young men responsible for the recent epidemic of high-profile school shootings Ü Mississippi's Luke Woodham, 16; Kentucky's Michael Carneal, 14; Arkansas' Mitchell Johnson, 13 and Andrew Golden, 11; Oregon's Kip Kinkel, 15; and Colorado's Eric Harris, 18 and Dylan Klebold, 17 -- all abused animals before turning their guns on fellow students.
  
   

• As further reported in "The Violence Connection," a 1985 study of aggressive and nonaggressive criminals incarcerated at federal penitentiaries found that 25 percent of non-aggressive criminals reported at least five incidents of childhood cruelty to animals, while less than 6 percent of nonaggressive criminals did so. None of the noncriminals interviewed for the study reported any acts of childhood cruelty to animals
  
   

• In a 1970's study conducted by the FBI of 36 convicted multiple murderers, 46% admitted to acts of animal torture as adolescents. Recognition of the link between cruelty toward animal and more general violence is now incorporated into FBI routine procedures.
  
   

• A 1994 report from the FBI stated that cruelty to animals is one of the traits that regularly appears in its computer records of serial rapists and killers: "The future killer's childhood concentration on violence will lead to an adulthood violence focus."
  
   

• A 1995 paper presented at the Fourth International Conference on Family Violence held in Durham, New Hampshire, reported that 71% of women seeking shelter in northern Utah reported that their male abusers had threatened, harmed, or killed their pets. Further, of the women with children, 32% reported that one of their children had also committed acts of animal cruelty.
  
   

• An analysis of animal cruelty cases in Massachusetts from 1975 to 1996 revealed that 70% of the animal abusers in the study also had criminal records, and of these, 40% had been convicted of violent crimes.
  
   

• The FBI's Supervising Special Agent Allan Brantley of the Bureau's Investigative Support Unit explained, speaking before a 1998 congressional hearing, "Taking animal cruelty seriously offers an opportunity to intervene in violent households and with violent individuals." He continued, "Violence against animals is synonymous with a history of violence. In many cases we have examples whereby violence against animals is a prelude to violence against humans. You can look at cruelty to animals and cruelty to humans as a continuum."

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A Program For Giving A Pet To A Prisoner

At this time, 100 percent of the inmates involved in the program who have been released have found employment, and the recidivism rate has been zero.

 

 

Pen Pals by Jacquelyn Gibbons A Rodale Press contribution     When people think of the bond between animals and humans, the first relationship that springs to mind usually isn't prisons and pets. Sister Pauline Quinn, founder of the Prison Pet Partnership Program, is changing all that. The program, which teaches prisoners to train, groom, and board dogs within prison walls, was started as a collaborative effort in 1981 by Sister Pauline, a Dominican nun, and the late Dr. Leo Bustad, former chair of Washington State University's veterinary program. Their belief was that inmate rehabilitation could be facilitated by the animal-human bond. With that thought in mind, inmates at the Washington State Corrections Center for Women began to reach out to the community by training special dogs that would assist disabled people. (Since then, other programs have been initiated in Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and Maine.) All inmates have to do a three-month apprenticeship prior to getting a dog and have two or more years remaining in their prison confinement, as it takes about 8 to 12 months to train the service dogs. Those dogs involved in the program who lack the necessary temperament to be trained as service dogs are trained in basic obedience skills and placed in the community as "Paroled Pets." Many of the animals in the program are taken from animal rescue organizations. Since the program's inception, more than 700 dogs have been placed as service, seizure, and therapy dogs for children and adults with disabilities and as pets in families. In addition to saving the lives of dogs on "death row" at local shelters, the program also positively affects the lives of inmates, who learn valuable and marketable job skills they can use when they resume life outside prison walls. Prisoners work toward pet care technician certification or companion animal hygienist certification. Most importantly, however, inmates are given the chance to give love and be loved in return. "The prisoners feel really good about themselves when they train a dog to help someone," says Sister Pauline. "There is no greater feeling than knowing you helped people change their life." At this time, 100 percent of the inmates involved in the program who have been released have found employment, and the recidivism rate has been zero.   Copyright © 2000 by Rodale Press, Inc.

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