@article{ref1,
title="Animal maltreatment in the context of intimate partner violence: a manifestation of power and control?",
journal="Violence against women",
year="2019",
author="Fitzgerald, Amy J. and Barrett, Betty Jo and Stevenson, Rochelle and Cheung, Chi Ho",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="1077801218824993-1077801218824993",
abstract="This study tests the theoretically informed assumption that intimate partner violence (IPV) and animal abuse so frequently co-occur because animal maltreatment is instrumentalized by abusers to harm human victims. Using data from a survey of abused women in Canadian shelters, we find that threats to harm &quot;pets,&quot; emotional animal abuse, and animal neglect are clearly perceived by these survivors as being intentionally perpetrated by their abuser and motivated by a desire to upset and control them; the findings related to physical animal abuse are not as straightforward. Building on these findings, we propose a more nuanced theorizing of the coexistence of animal maltreatment and IPV.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1077-8012",
doi="10.1177/1077801218824993",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801218824993"
}