TY - JOUR AU - Vollum, Scott PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Sociology/Criminal Justice 395 Violence Against Animals JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/sociologycriminal-justice-395-violence-against SP - AB - This course provides an introduction to the study of, and issues surrounding, violence againstanimals in its many forms. The social reality of animal cruelty, animal abuse, and other forms ofviolence against animals is explored by incorporating sociological, criminological, psychological,philosophical, and legal perspectives. The course begins with an examination of the role andpresence of non-human animals in human society, in criminological inquiry and in the law. It,then, explores the fundamental issue of what constitutes animal cruelty, animal abuse, or violence against animals, in general, and the different forms it takes. The course then focuses on the different contexts of violence against animals, beginning with its study in the context of intrahuman violence. Two primary aspects of this context are examined: violence against animals as predictive of violence against humans and violence against animals as co-occurring with violence against humans. Finally, violence against animals is examined as a social problem/act of violence worthy of study in and of itself, irrespective of its tie to intra-species human violence.In these contexts, both individualized and institutionalized forms of violence against animals willbe considered and discussed. ER -