Moral Panic over Fake Service Animals
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5936736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Sorenson (0000-0003-1695-4186, Brock University, corresponding author), Atsuko Matsuoka (0000-0003-2464-5527, York University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 439 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0760 • E-ISSN: 2076-0760 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/socsci11100439 |
| OpenAlex | W4297237275 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 38 |
We use Stanley Cohen's moral panic framework to examine concerns about fake service animals and to illuminate processes of intersectionality that shape our social relations and systems. Applying Critical Animal Studies and Critical Disability Theory, we examine media reports about fake service animals in North America to explore how these anxieties constitute a moral panic, the interests at work, and underlying ideology that motivates outrage about animals considered to be out of place. We found that classifying other animals as legitimate or not affects those animals but also impacts humans. The findings indicate that speciesist representations and restrictions imposed on nonhuman animals maintain ongoing discrimination against humans with disabilities. The study reveals how speciesism sustains ableism and advances particular economic interests. Thus, we encourage expanding research ontology to examine speciesist power relations in intersectional analysis to dismantle ableist oppressive relationships and achieve trans-species social justice (social justice beyond humans
Ableism · Criminology · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Ideology · Intersectionality · Moral panic · Outrage · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |