Animal Abuse Statistics: U.S. state rankings and nationwide data
Virtually all studies of the animal rights movement have noted that women outnumber men among rank and file activists. About 75% of animal rights activists are women. Additionally, groups having an animal rights focus were more likely to have women in prominent leadership positions than organizations with an animal welfare or animal shelter orientation.
VETERINARIANS.ORG: It’s estimated that every year, 10 million animals die from abuse in just the United States alone. To learn where in the U.S. animal abuse is most prevalent, the Special Reports team at Veterinarians.org analyzed data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)+, which provides national and state data for a variety of crime types, including animal cruelty offenses…
An analysis of animal cruelty offenses in the U.S. over a ten year period (2012-2021) shows that Texas takes the lead with nearly 7,000 animal cruelty offenses during this time period. This number is six times higher than the national average (1,146) and accounts for 15% of all animal cruelty offenses reported in the U.S. between 2012 and 2021.
Delaware, Colorado, Virginia, and Tennessee round out the Top 5. All of these states see offense numbers that are more than double the national average during the analyzed time period. Together, the number of animal cruelty offenses in these five states account for more than half of the nationwide total between 2012 and 2021…
There were 16,573 animal cruelty offenses reported to U.S. law enforcement agencies in 2021. Texas tops the list for the highest number of animal cruelty offenses in the nation. With 2,952 animal cruelty offenses reported in 2021, this number accounts for 17% of all nationwide offenses and is more than double the amount of offenses for the next leading state on the list. Texas, along with Delaware, Virginia, and Georgia, are the only states on the list where animal cruelty offenses exceeded 1,000 within the analyzed year…
The study also found associations between animal cruelty and assessed antisocial behaviors, lifetime alcohol use disorders, conduct disorder, antisocial, obsessive-compulsive, and histrionic personality disorders, pathological gambling, and family history of antisocial behavior. In children, animal cruelty is more common in boys and children with antisocial personality traits. Among adults charged with animal cruelty, men vastly outnumber women 4 to 1 across most types of abuse…
About 75% of animal rights activists are women. Virtually all studies of the animal rights movement have noted that women outnumber men among rank and file activists. Munro (2001) reported that about half of the animal protection organizations he studied were led by women. Herzog (1999) found that in the United States, gender parity varied with the goals of the organization. Groups having an animal rights focus were more likely to have women in prominent leadership positions than organizations with an animal welfare or animal shelter orientation”. SOURCE…
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