Understanding Dog Bites: The Important Role of Human Behavior

ABSTRACT This research contributes to extant knowledge about dog bites by using police department bite incident data to explore three sets of potential correlates of bites: traits of the victim, traits of the dog including the circumstances surrounding the bite, and traits of the neighborhood in which the bite occurred. It employs data on 478 bites, over a period of 8 years, in an urban setting that includes significant numbers of roaming dogs (both feral and owned), and incorporates a number of variables not included in past research. While environmental variables such as structural abandonment contribute to dog bite risk human error is most commonly at fault.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science

• Publication date

  2020-07-13

• Fields of study

  Geography, Sociology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1080/10888705.2020.1790371PMID 32660272
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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