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