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... During the eighteenth-and early-nineteenth centuries, as rural populations moved to cities, the popularity of baiting declined with dogfighting replacing it as the predominant form of animal fighting among the emerging industrial working class. It was also during this period that dogfighting emigrated to the United States with British settlers (Evans & Forsyth, 1997;Harding & Nurse, 2015;Ortiz, 2010;Semencic, 1984). (Add a sentence here to highlight the harm involved and how review essay will explore this understudied phenomenon.) ...
This article reviews the social scientific literature published between the late 1990s and 2021 on the illegal ‘sport’ of dog fighting in the UK and USA. Adopting a green criminological perspective, it argues that studying dog fighting is important for understanding the ways in which this form of animal cruelty contributes to a range of social and animal harms. The review is structured in five sections. The first situates the review theoretically by introducing key ideas within green criminology that will inform the discussion. The next section presents a typology of the different levels of dog fighting in both countries. The third section then explores both the motivations of contemporary dog fighters, as well as the justifications they deploy to defend their ‘sport’ to outsiders. The fourth section then adopts a green criminological perspective to explore the various social and animal harms associated with dog fighting. The final section then brings the threads of the discussion together and highlights some directions for future research.
... From the reign of King John in the 13 th century, Bull-baiting was also a common sport, (Semencic, 1984) providing an opportunity for farmers to test the keenness and performance of their dogs and then to gamble on the outcome. The aim of the sport being to grab the bull by the nose and bring it down by the nose -the nose being the most sensitive area. ...
The article considers the current dog fighting law in the UK and identifes how this falls short of offering protection to companion animals. More must be doen to provide suitable protection.
... We do not intend to provide a detailed history of the various pit-bu II-type breeds in this paper. For in-depth information see Pit Bull Report (Lockwood and Miller 1986) or other standard references (for example, Matz 1984; Semenic 1984). We can, however, briefly point to some illuminating facts. ...
This article explores the aesthetic and cultural connections between the hyper-masculinization inherent to hip hop culture (and particularly to gangsta rap), the pit bull dog breed, and dogfighting. Building on recent scholarship that has identified the racial and racist assumptions underlying the pit bull controversy, I provide further evidence and arguments on how the highly racialized and genderized hip hop discourses inoculate the pit bull body and suffuse it with multiple meanings reminiscent of America’s traumatic encounter with otherness. As a palimpsest that attests to both mainstream and countercultural explorations of racialized masculinities, the pit bull body is made to “perform” its role as both an agent and a victim within the nation’s compulsive need to control and monitor the “other.”
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This study examines the issue of masculinity indogfighting. Dogfighting is an illegal gaming sportcentered in the Southern United States. The data for thisstudy were obtained via ethnographic fieldwork over a period of two years. Interviews wereconducted with 31 dogmen, approximately 90% of whom werewhite males. In addition the authors attended 14dogfights and numerous pre-fight meetings. We argue that specific elements of this sport representsymbolic attempts at attaining and maintaining honor andstatus, which, in the (predominantly white, male,working-class) dogfighting subculture, are equated with masculine identity. We further argue thatpursuit of symbolic masculinity through dogfighting ismore important to working-class men, who possess feweralternative avenues for achieving status than do middle-class or professional men. Theimplications of this research for the larger culture ofmasculinity in the United States are alsoexplored.
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