Animal Cruelty/Human Violence (pdf)
added 08/06/2008
"This fact sheet offers statistics from several research studies investigating the connection between animal cruelty and human violence, domestic violence, and child abuse."
Battered Women's Reports of Their Partner's and Children's Cruelty to Animals (pdf)
added 08/11/2008
"This research study describes how abuse of pets is a method employed by batterers to control their partners, contributes to the impact on children exposed to violence, and may also be related to batterers' lethality."