RT Article
T1 RSPCA and the criminology of social control
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 55
IS 5
SP 375
OP 389
A1 Hughes, Gordon 1952-
A2 Lawson, Claire
LA English
YR 2011
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1854868306
AB This paper contributes to a rethinking of animal abuse control and animal welfare protection in criminology, specifically, and in the social sciences more broadly. We do this, first, through a broad mapping of the institutional control complex around animal abuse in contemporary Britain. Second, we focus on the institutional strategies and practices, past and present, of the main agency of animal protection, and the policing thereof, in this society, namely the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA). In looking back to this charity’s growth since the first decades of the nineteenth century at the time of the birth of modern industrial capitalism and also to its current rationale and practices as a late-modern, corporate organisation, we explore the seeming paradox of a private body taking a lead on the regulation and prosecution of illegalities associated with animal-human relationships. Finally, the ideology and strategy of the RSPCA are explored in the context of the often visceral and culturally influential ‘morality war’ associated with proponents, respectively, of animal rights (‘abolition’) and ‘anthropic’ welfare proponents (‘regulation’ and ‘protection’).
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 388-389
K1 Animal Abuse
K1 Animal Protection
K1 Animal Welfare
K1 Green Criminology
K1 Mobilisation Strategy
DO 10.1007/s10611-011-9292-7