Dog owners’ supervising duty and criminal negligence – A critical review of two judgments by Swedish courts of appeal

The aim of this article is to show difficulties arising when courts judge the negligence of dog owners in absence of precise legislation and typical precedents. We analyze the elements of a crime in two cases where children were objects of canine aggression, and show how the courts constructed the i...

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Main Authors: Helena Striwing, Sirkku Sarenbo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-11-01
Series:Forensic Science International: Animals and Environments
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666937421000305