Walliss, John (2023) Crimes Against Non-human Animals: Examining Dog Fighting in the UK and the USA through a Green Criminology Perspective. Sociology Compass, 17 (6). ISSN 1751-9020
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Abstract
This article reviews the social scientific literature on dog fighting in the UK and USA since the 1990s. The review is structured in 5 sections. The first will situate the review theoretically by introducing key ideas within green criminology that will inform the discussion, specifically the concepts of harm, nonspeciesism and species justice. The next section will then begin the review itself by presenting a typology of the different levels or types of contemporary dog fighting found in the UK and USA. In doing so, it will explore how they differ in terms of frequency, level
of organisation, visibility, participants, and the nature of the fight itself. Following on from this, the third section will explore both the motivations of contemporary dog fighters, as well the justifications that they deploy to defend their ‘sport’ to (often critical) outsiders.
The fourth section will adopt a green criminological perspective to explore the various harms of dog fighting for society in general and, not least, for the fighting dogs
themselves. The final section will then conclude by bringing together the threads of the analysis and highlighting some directions for future research.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. © 2023 The Authors. Sociology Compass published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Business, Law and Criminology > School of Law and Criminology |
| Depositing User: | John Walliss |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Mar 2023 10:03 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jun 2023 15:36 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3784 |
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