NDLI: RSPCA and the criminology of social control

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Hughes, Gordon Lawson, Claire
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	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’).
Starting Page	375
Ending Page	389
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09254994
Journal	Crime, Law and Social Change
Volume Number	55
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	15730751
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2011-04-14
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Social Sciences Criminology & Criminal Justice Criminal Law Political Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Law Pathology and Forensic Medicine

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