Appropriate sentencing can also include individual or family counseling, community service, placement in a diversion program and a prohibition on owning or caring for animals.
It is rarely the goal of police to imprison a child for cruelty to animals. Law enforcement officers and judges recognize that cruelty to animals is one part of a complex problem.
Sometimes, the official response to animal cruelty provides a family its first opportunity to get help. While many jurisdictions will respond to an anonymous complaint, successful prosecutions often depend on an identifiable witness who can authenticate evidence.
Because there is no national reporting requirement for animal abuse, there is no way to track the number of animal cruelty cases that are filed or that make it to court each year. The idea of creating animal abuser registries, similar to sex abuser registries, has been advocated for a long time. The nation's first such registry was established in Suffolk County, N. Be aware of the signs of animal cruelty and know how to report suspected cruelty to animals and sign up to be notified about actions you can take to bring animal abusers to justice.
Animal neglect situations are those in which the animal's caretaker or owner fails to provide food, water, shelter or veterinary care sufficient for survival. It can be either deliberate or unintentional, but either way, the animal suffers terribly. Extended periods of neglect can lead to seriously compromised health or even death. Animal cause control agencies nationwide report that animal neglect cases are the most common calls to which they respond. The pain of an animal who lingers with untreated illness or wounds, or without nourishment or shelter, can be tremendous—sometimes even more so than those who are victims of directly inflicted violence, because their suffering is so prolonged.
Animals who starve to death experience a myriad of painful symptoms throughout each stage of their physical deterioration. An initial loss of body fat is followed by muscle loss and atrophy and, ultimately, organ failure. In long-term starvation, degeneration of the liver, cardiac changes, anemia and skin lesions may develop.
An animal without proper shelter can also quickly succumb to extreme heat or cold. During extremely cold spells or hot periods, it is not uncommon for animal control officers to find companion animals—often chained dogs —literally frozen to the ground or dead from heat prostration because of lack of proper shelter from the elements.
Often these animals perish only feet away from the homes in which their caretakers live. Dogs who are continually chained are also neglect victims, even if it may not be illegal in that particular jurisdiction.
Wednesday, June 2, -- AM. No harm intended from me, either. We may agree;we may disagree. That is always part of the human equation. Respectfully, HGN. Skip to main content. Search form Search. The Psychology of Cruelty. Sunday, May 30, Psychology cruelty Empathy. First Aired:.
Sunday, September 16, What Is It Throughout history, people have committed all kinds of cruel, degrading, and evil acts toward other people. Listening Notes Is a lack of empathy always at the heart of human cruelty? Buy the Episode. Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty. Baren-Cohen, Simon Bloom, Paul Manne, Kate Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny.
Smith, David Stout, Martha The Sociopath Next Door. Web Resources: Bloom, Paul Lopez-Perez, Belen Stueber, Karsten Bonus Content. Research By Lisa Wang. Comments 13 Harold G.
Neuman Friday, September 14, -- AM I guess I would have to read I guess I would have to read Bloom's book, in order to get to the rationale behind the title. Log in or register to post comments. Harold G. Tim Smith Saturday, May 15, -- PM What follows is no critique What follows is no critique of Paul Bloom rather a restatement of his czar of compassion answer. Nice show. Neuman Saturday, May 22, -- AM Sometimes, we are bent toward Sometimes, we are bent toward cruelty when, in our view, people just don't act right.
Tim Smith Saturday, May 22, -- AM If you don't know the right If you don't know the right or wrong of an action or notion then we are back to " if I got a notion to jump into the ocean In response to your post I don't know either.
Best, Smith. Hope this Working on a reply. Cruelty I will abbreviate: 1. Apes are not shrewd. Shrewdness is the collective noun for a troop of apes. I see no failure to frame. I'm not saying much here that is controversial. Just checked with my checker. I think I need to change the titer of my sauce. Always good to have a checker.
Best, Tim. No harm intended Well-stated. Create new account Request new password. Upcoming Shows. In a liberal democracy, individuals should have the freedom to give money to charities of their choice. Beyond psychological research, we can look to institutions for evidence that this sort of bifurcated view is widespread, as we have argued elsewhere.
For example, when animals are used in scientific experimentation, researchers are mainly expected to show the benefits outweigh the costs: a utilitarian standard. So we tend to be more utilitarian about animals than about humans. Think about your family dog.
Would your conscience allow you to kill her to save five other dogs? For an example, consider the way the fishing industry treats bycatch as disposable. Such a view is defended by world-renowned Australian philosopher Peter Singer , among many others.
And famous philosophers such as Tom Regan have argued a vast range of animals ought to be seen in that way. Currently, many of us see most animals as mere things, the way fishermen typically see bycatch. And this might continue into the future. Despite their differences from humans, animals are conscious individuals with their own welfare, and so do matter in themselves.
Recognising this will be an essential step in reducing the tremendous amount of unnecessary suffering and death that humans inflict on animals. Then, there are so-called family annihilators, almost always men, who kill their families and, typically, themselves.
Manne delves into the case of Elliot Rodger, who, in , went on a killing spree, targeting people at random, after he was denied entry to a sorority house at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He slew six people and injured fourteen more before killing himself. For Manne, such violent episodes are merely an extreme manifestation of everyday misogyny, and she extends her analysis to catcalling, attitudes toward abortion, and the predations of Donald Trump. Nor are the mechanisms she identifies confined to misogyny.
The philosopher Martha C. As a philosopher, Manne grounds her arguments in more technical literature, and at one point she emphasizes the connection between her position and the Oxford philosopher P. Moreover, in being capable of rationality, agency, autonomy, and judgment, they are also someone who could coerce, manipulate, humiliate, or shame you. In being capable of abstract relational thought and congruent moral emotions, they are capable of thinking ill of you and regarding you contemptuously.
In being capable of forming complex desires and intentions, they are capable of harboring malice and plotting against you. In being capable of valuing, they may value what you abhor and abhor what you value. They may hence be a threat to all that you cherish. I can resent someone, but I can also feel shame at how I treated him or her.
Fiske and Rai sometimes write as if the paradigm of moralistic violence were the final scene of the movie in which our hero blows away the terrorist or the serial killer or the rapist—a deeply satisfying act that has everyone cheering. But what about doubt and ambivalence? Real moral progress may involve studying the forms of doubt and ambivalence that sometimes attend acts of brutality.
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