Statistics on crimes committed to animals and changes in the animal welfare control in Sweden

B. Staaf Larsson; L.J. Keeling; E. Hjerpe

Statistics on crimes committed to animals and changes in the animal welfare control in Sweden

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B. Staaf Larsson

B. Staaf Larsson ¹Swedish Centre of Animal Welfare, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 7068, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden

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L.J. Keeling

L.J. Keeling ²Department of Animal Environment and Health, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 7068, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden

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E. Hjerpe

E. Hjerpe ³Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 7023, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden; birgitta.staaf.larsson@slu.se

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086867844_086

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This article presents statistics on violations of the Animal Welfare Act and cruelty to animals according to the Penal Code, as well as changes in the frequencies and outcomes from official animal welfare control following its transition from the Swedish municipal to the county administration boards. The Swedish Council for Crime Prevention (Brå) presents statistics on these animal welfare violations and the cruelty to animal cases. Each year the Swedish Board of Agriculture presents statistics on the number of cases where animals are taken into custody and how many people are prohibited from keeping or handling animals. There is no specific code for crimes committed to animals and to get statistics on prosecutions for this study a special search from the database at Brå had to be requested. Statistics showed that during the previous twelve year period on average 63 individuals per year were prosecuted for violations of the Animal Welfare Act, of which fewer than four people were sentenced to prison, and 68 people were prosecuted for cruelty to animals in the Penal Code, of which 43 were sentenced to prison. When the county administration boards took over the control responsibility from local authorities in the beginning of 2009, the number of inspections carried out was reduced to almost half (54%) of the number during the previous five years (2004-2008). But regarding cases where animals were taken into custody, it doubled the year the county administration boards took over the responsibility and in 2010 the amount more than tripled. The last two years these cases also increased, but not that much. Since the county administration boards seem to focus on the worst cases, this change of responsibility has had a great impact on animal welfare. It can therefore be concluded that the intention of Art. 3 in the Control Regulation (EC) No 882/2004, is fulfilled.

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The ethics of consumption

The citizen, the market, and the law

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Verleger:: Wageningen Academic

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 01 Nov 2013

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