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Introduction
Researchers have been complaining about the lack of attention to animals in social science literature for the past 30 years or more (Bryant, 1979). As social science disciplines, criminology, criminal justice, and victimology have ignored an entire category of sentient beings, namely nonhuman animals, as victims as well as sources of therapeutic benefit to at-risk human populations. My own review of textbooks in victimology alone reveals the stark omission of thoughtful, scholarly consideration of animal–human relationships, whether abusive or therapeutic, and the legislative history of animal rights. This absence of animals in these disciplines must bring scholars and practitioners back to the roots of important concepts of harm, crime, rights, and who or what is impacted and in what way.
Source: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10282580.2015.1093746
