caa a22 4500 445806206 CHVBK 20180317145157.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10611-011-9293-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10611-011-9293-6 Hallsworth Simon London Metropolitan University, London, England, UK aut Then they came for the dogs! [Elektronische Daten] [Simon Hallsworth] This paper examines the British state's desire to liquidate the Pit Bull as a breed. It examines the moral panic that brought the Pit Bull Terrier to public attention and traces the government's knee-jerk response that resulted in the Dangerous Dogs Act (1991), the legal instrument that mandated Britain's first attempt at canine genocide. Though public protection was the stated justification of this exercise in state violence, there was and is no evidence to support the case for canine killing through the indiscriminate blanket medium of breed specific legislation. Far from conceiving the dog an aggressor and humans its victims, this paper precedes on the assumption that the dogs are the victims and humans the inhuman aggressor. The paper concludes by examining the factors that provoked the UK's descent into mass dog killing. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Crime, Law and Social Change Springer Netherlands 55/5(2011-06-01), 391-403 0925-4994 55:5<391 2011 55 10611 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-011-9293-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-011-9293-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hallsworth Simon London Metropolitan University, London, England, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Crime, Law and Social Change Springer Netherlands 55/5(2011-06-01), 391-403 0925-4994 55:5<391 2011 55 10611 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer