Animal cruelty an indicator to more grevious crime

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/magazine/13dogfighting-t.html

 

 

This article is about how the police are now investigating animal cruelty more than ever because it leads them to more and more violent criminals and crimes not related to animal cruelty.

 

 

"The link between animal abuse and interpersonal violence is becoming so well established that many U.S. communities now cross-train social-service and animal-control agencies in how to recognize signs of animal abuse as possible indicators of other abusive behaviors. In Illinois and several other states, new laws mandate that veterinarians notify the police if their suspicions are aroused by the condition of the animals they treat. The state of California recently added Humane Society and animal-control officers to the list of professionals bound by law to report suspected child abuse and is now considering a bill in the State Legislature that would list animal abusers on the same type of online registry as sex offenders and arsonists. "

 

"A paper published in a psychiatry journal in 2004,