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.

摘要

这项研究通过使用警察部门咬伤事件数据来探索三组潜在的咬伤相关因素，有助于了解有关狗咬伤的现有知识：受害者的特征、狗的特征（包括咬伤周围的环境）以及被咬的社区的特征。咬伤发生。它采用了 8 年期间在城市环境中 478 次叮咬的数据，其中包括大量流浪狗（野生和拥有的），并结合了过去研究中未包括的许多变量。虽然结构遗弃等环境变量导致狗咬风险，但人为错误最常见。