Recent state legislation that seeks to enact animal abuser registries

Escrito por Nuria Querol i Viñas | 02 Febrero 2012
Posted in Articles - Violence to animals general

 

Suffolk County, New York, established the first animal abuser registry in October 2010 and set a precedent for other New York counties and legislation in other states.  The animal abuser registries are similar to those required for sex offenders.  Any person convicted of an animal...[...]

Domestic Violence and Pets: List of States that Include Pets in Protection Orders

Escrito por Nuria Querol i Viñas | 02 Febrero 2012
Posted in Articles - Domestic Violence

Note that 21 states (as well as D.C. and Puerto Rico) to date (2011) have enacted legislation that include provisions for pets in DV protection orders. 1. Arizona

AZ ST § 13-3602; A. R. S. § 13-3602

This Arizona law provides that, if a court issues an order of p...[...]

Texas, Oregon Enact Pet Protection Orders

Escrito por The National Link Coalition | 20 Junio 2011
Posted in Articles - Domestic Violence

How are serial animal killers investigated?

Escrito por BBC | 28 Mayo 2011
Posted in Articles - Violence to animals general

Dozens of swans have been slaughtered around the UK this year, a serial cat killer is on the loose in Norfolk, and over the past three decades hundreds of horses have been mutilated. But how is serial animal violence investigated, asks Tom de Castella.

Orlando Plans Pet Shelter for Domestic Violence Cases

Escrito por The National Link Coalition | 15 Abril 2011
Posted in Articles - Domestic Violence

Harbor House of Central Florida has been working for several years to build the only on‐site kennel in central Florida where domestviolence survivors can bring their pets.

Arkansas, Maryland Enact Pet Protection Orders

Escrito por The National Link Coalition | 15 Abril 2011
Posted in Articles - Domestic Violence

ARKANSAS and MARYLAND now make 19 states, and 21 political jurisdictions, that allow courts to consider the welfare of animals in domestic violence cases. In Arkansas, HB 2001 allows a court in a hearing for domestic abuse relief to direct the care, custody or control of any pet by either party in t...[...]

Help needed for silent sufferers of domestic abuse

Escrito por RSPCA | 09 Abril 2011
Posted in Articles - Domestic Violence

Pet fosterers urgently needed as demand surges

 

Animals’ DNA Helps Catch Their Abusers

Escrito por NY Times | 28 Marzo 2011
Posted in Articles - Violence to animals general

By ANDY NEWMAN
Photographs by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Scruffy the cat, whose whiskers and eyebrows were singed in a 2008 attack that burned the rest of his body so badly that he had to be euthanized.

Scruffy’s DNA was harvested in 2008 from a sample of burnt...[...]

Conferencias CRINVE 2011

Escrito por Nuria Querol i Viñas | 03 Febrero 2011
Posted in Articles - Violence to animals general

It is with such an immense satisfaction, after a year, that we are so pleased to present the second edition of the International Congress of the High School of Science in Criminology - CRINVE 2011 entitled "The Community Victim. Land and Security ".

INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE LINK

Escrito por National Link Coalition | 13 Diciembre 2010
Posted in Articles - Violence to animals general

Proceedings of the National Link Coalition Roundtable

Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver

June 10-11, 2010

Denver, Colorado


While much of the Link work to date has taken place in the U.S., the movement is gaining traction in other nations as well. Participants at the National Link Coali...[...]