Dog Fighting: Raising Awareness to the Issue
According to the ASPCA, dog fighting arrests in the United States have numbered in the thousands between 2003 and 2008. There are certainly many more cases that are never discovered. The types of people involved in dog fighting or those who participate in the audience are a diverse group not limited to urban settings. Other illegal crimes that are associated with dog fighting include but are not limited to drug, alcohol, money laundering, and weapon violations. Aside from the criminal aspects, the toll that the fighting takes on the animals involved is nothing less than horrendous. Rehabilitation is expensive and difficult and many dogs must be euthanized as a result. Along with the felony charges that New Jersey holds for the crime of dog fighting, it should also include the penalty of being required in a registry. This registration process could be a law that is modeled after Megan’s Law where sexual offenders must register in the area in which they reside. Our idea has been sent to two senators from the state of New Jersey in order to complete our service project.
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Within and Inter-Institutional Differences Between Death Certifiers on Autopsy Conclusions
This study seeks to establish whether medico-legal practitioners differ in their autopsy conclusions within and across medico-legal institutions. Data include 459 violent deaths (homicides, suicides, and accidents) autopsy reports written by more than 20 death certifiers from four medico-legal institutions in two countries (France and the United States). Multinomial models show that compared with accidental deaths, weapon use and decedents’ characteristics both influence a homicide verdict, but not a suicide one. In addition, French practitioners are more likely than Americans to reach a conclusion of homicide or suicide compared with accident, and homicides are more likely to be certified by male practitioners.