Dog-fighting was historically a working-class pursuit within predominantly white, working-class subcultures, representing a distinct type of organised animal exploitation. However, contemporary dog-fighting has moved way from its organised pit-based origins to encompass varied forms of organised activity including street dog-fighting in the form of chain fighting or chain rolling, the use of dogs as status or weapon dogs. This paper examines dog-fighting from a green criminological perspective as a distinct form of organised and subcultural crime. Analysis of UK legislation identifies that the specific offence of ‘dog-fighting’ does not exist. Instead, dog-fighting is contained within the ‘animal fighting’ offence, prohibited by provisions of the Animal Welfare Act 2006. However, beyond the actual fight activities (pitting dogs against each other or attacking humans), a range of other offences are associated with dog-fighting including: illegal gambling; attending dog-fighting events; animal welfare harms; and the breeding and selling of dogs for fighting. This paper’s analysis examines contemporary legal perspectives on such activities; also discussing how illegal fieldsports (e.g. dog-fighting and cock-fighting) are dominated by organised crime elements of gambling and distinctly masculine subcultures through which a hierarchy of offending is established and developed. Commensurate with previous research that identifies different offender behaviours and offending within animal crime, this paper concludes that variation exists in the nature of dog-fighting to the extent that a single approach to offenders and offending behaviour is unlikely to be successful.

在以白人为主的工人阶级亚文化中，斗狗在历史上是一种工人阶级的追求，代表了一种独特的有组织的动物剥削类型。然而，当代斗狗已经从其有组织的基于坑的起源转变为包括各种形式的有组织的活动，包括以连锁斗殴或连锁滚动形式的街头斗狗，使用狗作为地位犬或武器犬。本文从绿色犯罪学的角度将斗狗视为一种独特的有组织和亚文化犯罪形式。对英国立法的分析表明，“斗狗”这一特定罪行并不存在。取而代之的是，斗狗被包含在 2006 年《动物福利法》的规定禁止的“动物搏斗”罪行中。 然而，除了实际的打斗活动（让狗互相攻击或攻击人类）之外，还有一系列其他罪行与斗狗有关，包括： 非法赌博；参加斗狗活动；动物福利危害；以及饲养和销售战斗犬。本文的分析考察了有关此类活动的当代法律观点；还讨论了非法的田野运动（例如斗狗和斗鸡）如何被有组织的赌博犯罪元素和明显男性化的亚文化所主导，通过这些元素建立和发展了犯罪等级。与之前的研究相称，该研究确定了动物犯罪中的不同犯罪行为和犯罪行为，