caa a22 4500 445806168 CHVBK 20180317145157.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10611-011-9292-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10611-011-9292-7 RSPCA and the criminology of social control [Elektronische Daten] [Gordon Hughes, Claire Lawson] 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'). Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Hughes Gordon Cardiff University, Centre for Crime, Law and Justice, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff, Wales, UK aut Lawson Claire Cardiff University, Centre for Crime, Law and Justice, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff, Wales, UK aut Crime, Law and Social Change Springer Netherlands 55/5(2011-06-01), 375-389 0925-4994 55:5<375 2011 55 10611 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-011-9292-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-011-9292-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hughes Gordon Cardiff University, Centre for Crime, Law and Justice, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff, Wales, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lawson Claire Cardiff University, Centre for Crime, Law and Justice, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff, Wales, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Crime, Law and Social Change Springer Netherlands 55/5(2011-06-01), 375-389 0925-4994 55:5<375 2011 55 10611 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer