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Effective Public Policies

  • Public Policy: Community Safety Through Breed Bans?
  • The Responsible Pet Ownership Model
  • Breed specific legislation: Considerations for evaluating its effectiveness and recommendations for alternatives
  • Is Breed Specific Legislation the Answer to Preventing Dog Attacks?
  • Deed or Breed? Evaluating bite reports and Breed Specific Legislation in South Austrailia
  • Hound Hysteria and the Panic of Breed-ism

Dog Bite Prevention

  • Teaching Children and Parents to Understand Dog Signaling
  • Dog Bite Prevention: A New Screening Tool
  • Dog Bite Prevention: Effect of a Short Educational Intervention for Preschool Children
  • An Evaluation of a Dog Bite Prevention Intervention in the Pediatric Emergency Department
  • The Family Dog - Stop the 77
  • Dr. Sophia Yin - Preventing Dog Bites
  • Doggone Safe - Become Your Community's Dog Bite Prevention Expert
  • AVMA - Dog Bite Prevention
  • ASPCA - Dog Bite Prevention
  • CDC - Healthy Pets, Healthy People
  • Journal of Pediatrics - Dog Bite Prevention
  • Incident Prevention Magazine - Occupational Dog Bite Prevention & Safety
  • For Kid's Sake - Dog Bite Prevention
  • NCRC - Police and Dog Encounters

Medical Studies on Dog Bites

  • ​Dog bite injuries to humans and the use of breed-specific legislation: A comparison of bites from legislated and non-legislated dog breeds​
  • Insights about the Epidemiology of Dog Bites in a Canadian City Using a Dog Aggression Scale and Administrative Data
  • Nonfatal Dog Bite--Related Injuries Treated in Hospital Emergency Departments --- United States, 2001​
  • ​The effect of breed-specific dog legislation on hospital treated dog bites in Odense, Denmark—A time series intervention study
  • Does the dangerous dogs act protect against animal attacks: a prospective study of mammalian bites in the accident and emergency department
  • Defaming Rover: Error-Based Latent Rhetoric in the Medical Literature on Dog Bites
  • When Doctors Stray Outside of Expertise

Inconsistencies of visual breed identification

  • Inconsistent identification of pit bull-type dogs by shelter staff
  • More than a label: shelter dog genotyping reveals inaccuracy of breed assignments
  • Comparison of Visual and DNA Breed Identification of Dogs and Inter-Observer Reliability
  • Comparison of adoption agency breed identification and DNA breed identification of dogs
  • Visual Breed Identification: A Literature Review
  • Summary & Analysis: Comparison of visual and DNA breed identification of dogs and inter-observer reliability
  • How long before we discard visual breed identification?
  • Breed Specific Legislation: Unfair Prejudice and Ineffective Policy
  • Managing the Stigma of Outlaw breeds: A case study of Pit Bull owners
  • Does every dog really have its day? A closer look at the inequity of Iowa's breed-specific legislation​
  • What’s in a Name? Effect of Breed Perceptions & Labeling on Attractiveness, Adoptions & Length of Stay for Pit-Bull-Type Dogs
  • Influence of breed, handler appearance and people's experience of dogs on their perception of the temperament of a breed of dog in Ireland

breed VS Behavior

  • Is there a difference? Comparison of golden retrievers and dogs affected by breed-specific legislation regarding aggressive behavior
  • Endogenous Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and Aggression in Domestic Dogs
  • Heritability of behavioural traits in domestic dogs: A meta-analysis
  • Human directed aggression in domestic dogs (Canis familiaris): occurrence in different contexts and risk factors​
  • Small Animal Veterinarians’ Perceptions, Experiences, and Views of Common Dog Breeds, Dog Aggression, and Breed-Specific Laws in the United States
  • Genetic mapping of canine fear and aggression

Social Injustice

  • Dogs and Racism in America
  • The Ugly Racist Underpinnings of Pit Bull Laws
  • ​Dangerous Dog Laws: Failing To Give Man's Best Friend a Fair Shake at Justice
  • ​American Bar Association - Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section Commission on Disability Rights
  • Managing the Stigma of Outlaw Breeds: A Case Study of Pit Bull Owners

case studies

  • Does the dangerous dogs act protect against animal attacks: a prospective study of mammalian bites in the accident and emergency department​
  • Italian breed-specific legislation on potentially dangerous dogs (2003): Assessment of its effects in the city of Florence (Italy)
  • Human hospitalisations due to dog bites in Ireland, 1998-2013: Implications for current breed specific legislation
  • Descriptive study of dog bites in France Severity factors. Factors of onset of sequelae. Circumstances. Results of a survey conducted by InVS and Zoopsy in 2009–2010
  • Dog bites in The Netherlands: a study of victims, injuries, circumstances and aggressors to support evaluation of breed specific legislation
  • Sioux City, IA Lawsuit
  • Columbia, MO Report​

Human-Canine Bond

  • Are People More Disturbed by Dog or Human Suffering? Are People More Disturbed by Dog or Human Suffering?

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