Neglecting Nonhuman Animals: A Content Analysis of Introductory Criminal Justice and Criminology Textbooks

IF 0.6 4区农林科学 Q4 SOCIOLOGY

Society & Animals Pub Date : 2020-05-11 DOI:10.1163/15685306-bja10009

Jen Girgen

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Abstract

As illustrated by the fact that all states now have felony anti-cruelty laws and the FBI has begun tracking some forms of nonhuman animal abuse in its National Incident-Based Reporting System, there is growing recognition by lawmakers and criminal justice professionals that the abuse of animals should be taken seriously and properly addressed by the criminal justice system. This article assesses 19 popular introductory criminal justice and criminology textbooks to determine whether these texts share this sentiment by giving attention to this offense. Results indicate that animal abuse is given no, or only minimal, attention in most of these textbooks, and when it is included, it tends to be framed more as an environmental problem than one of violence or morality. The article concludes with a call to textbook authors and publishers to better include animal abuse within their texts and offers suggestions for how to accomplish this.

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忽视非人类动物:刑事司法与犯罪学入门教材内容分析

所有的州现在都有反虐待重罪法，联邦调查局已经开始在其国家事件报告系统中追踪一些形式的虐待非人类动物的行为，这一事实表明，立法者和刑事司法专业人士越来越认识到，刑事司法系统应该认真对待虐待动物的问题，并适当地加以解决。本文评估了19本流行的刑事司法和犯罪学入门教科书，以确定这些教科书是否通过关注这种犯罪来分享这种观点。结果表明，在大多数教科书中，虐待动物没有得到关注，或者只有很少的关注，当它被包括在内时，它往往被视为一个环境问题，而不是一个暴力或道德问题。文章最后呼吁教科书作者和出版商在教科书中更好地包含虐待动物的内容，并就如何实现这一目标提出了建议。

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来源期刊

Society & Animals 社会科学-兽医学

CiteScore

1.40

自引率

12.50%

发文量

审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Society & Animals publishes studies that describe and analyze our experiences of non-human animals from the perspective of various disciplines within both the Social Sciences (e.g., psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science) and the Humanities (e.g., history, literary criticism). The journal specifically deals with subjects such as human-animal interactions in various settings (animal cruelty, the therapeutic uses of animals), the applied uses of animals (research, education, medicine and agriculture), the use of animals in popular culture (e.g. dog-fighting, circus, animal companion, animal research), attitudes toward animals as affected by different socializing agencies and strategies, representations of animals in literature, the history of the domestication of animals, the politics of animal welfare, and the constitution of the animal rights movement.