TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arluke,Arnold
TI  - Just a dog: understanding animal cruelty and ourselves 
T2  - Animals, culture, and society
SN  - 1592134734
AV  - HV4708 .A756 2006eb
U1  - 179/.3 22
PY  - 2006///
KW  - Animal rights
KW  - Animal welfare
KW  - Human-animal relationships
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - fast
KW  - NATURE
KW  - Animal Rights
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - Computer network resources
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-215) and index; Agents: feigning authority -- Adolescents: appropriating adulthood -- Hoarders: shoring up self -- Shelter workers: finding authenticity -- Marketers: Celebrating community -- Cruelty is good to think
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 decontextualized--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  - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1bw1k2h
ER  -