Animal Abuse Incidence

Data for all-male groups here

 

Incidence of Reported Prior Animal Abuse in Groups of Females Only

Identified as Violent or Abusive towards Humans

• 36%, 11/31, Inmates, Felthous & Yudowitz 1977

Incidence of Reported Prior Animal Abuse in Mixed Groups of Males and Females

• 17%, 28/294, psychiatric outpatient children, Heath et al. 1984
• 5%, 10/192, substance abusing adolescents, Gordon et al. 2004.
• ~4%, estimated, slaughter house workers, Grandin 1988.
• 1.8%, Americans over the age if 18, Vaughn et al. 2009.

Incidence of Animal Abuse Reported by an Abused Spouse or Domestic Partner

• 57%, 16/28, women at a shelter, Ascione 1997.