The sociology of 'Dangerous Dogs' constructions: some resources

Some of you may know one of my research (and political) interests lies with the problems with Breed Specific Legislation and the ideological constructions of 'dangerous dogs' and why these cause problems. Some useful resources on this subject are below:

1.A very useful book in terms of statistics presentations and sociology of 'risk'. If you can live with my own ideological bias towards lovely mutts and scepticism of certain aspects of 'Dangerous Dogs' legislation (!) you may find this a useful book.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dogs-Bite-Balloons-Slippers-Dangerous/dp/1888047186/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279474593&sr=1-3

2. The Pit Bull Placebo: The Media, Myths and Politics ofCanine Aggression by Karen Delise. 

This book on pdf constitutes a useful sociological project involving media analysis and the subject of 'risk' (with regard to dogs). Again - if you can live with my biased interest in this book (anti- Breed specific legislation), I think this is a useful book for critical analysis of media and moral panics.http://nationalcanineresearchcouncil.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/pit-bull-placebo-text1.pdf

3. A paper from the British Criminology Conference, 2008 ( the British Society of Criminology) 'On Treating the Symptoms and not the Cause 

Reflections on the Dangerous Dogs Act' Maria Kaspersson, University of Greenwich. Addressing the issue of 'Dangerous Dogs', this paper looks at the issue of risk management from a crimonological/sociological perspective, includes useful quantitative data and an analysis of the 'moral panic' that gave rise to BSL in the UK in 1991. I'm including it here because of it's usefulness in understanding the social construction of risk.

http://www.britsoccrim.org/volume8/13Kaspersson08.pdf

4. There are some other academic articles of interest on this subject. Email me and I can point you in the direction to access them.