TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arluke,Arnold
TI  - Just a Dog: Understanding Animal Cruelty and Ourselves 
SN  - 9781592134717
PB  - Temple University Press
KW  - Social Science / Violence In Society
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social Science
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - Psychiatrists define cruelty to animals as a psychological problem or personality disorder. Legally, animal cruelty is described by a list of behaviors. In Just a Dog, Arnold Arluke argues that our current constructs of animal cruelty are decontextualizedâ€"imposed without regard to the experience of the groups committing the act. Yet those who engage in animal cruelty have their own understandings of their actions and of themselves as actors. In this fascinating book, Arluke probes those understandings and reveals the surprising complexities of our relationships with animals.Just a Dog draws from interviews with more than 250 people, including humane agents who enforce cruelty laws, college students who tell stories of childhood abuse of animals, hoarders who chronically neglect the welfare of many animals, shelter workers who cope with the ethics of euthanizing animals, and public relations experts who use incidents of animal cruelty for fundraising purposes
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/4b386f50-72d4-4fc7-88dd-27df2eb4933d
ER  -