LOGAN?As Frank Ascione progressed in his studies of the socialization of children, he noticed a hole and set out to fill it.

Ascione has been rewarded with the 2001 Distinguished Scholar Award, given once every three years by the International Association of Human-Animal Interaction Organizations and the International Society for Anthrozoology for his research documenting the connection between child abuse and animal maltreatment.

Ascione theorizes that when children abuse animals, they often are ?imitating what they are seeing in the home or community.?