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Just a Dog - Animal Cruelty, Self, and Society (Paperback)
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Just a Dog - Animal Cruelty, Self, and Society (Paperback)
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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. Through these case studies, Arluke shows how
the meaning of \u0022cruelty\u0022 reflects and helps to create
identities and ideologies.
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