Key bibliographies ::

Dog bite injury

• Bites, Animal (Catastrophic Pit Bull Attack Injury), by Alisha Perkins Garth, MD, Coauthor(s): N Stuart Harris, MD, FACEP, eMedicine, Updated: June 25, 2009.
• Pediatric Dog Bite Injuries: A 5-Year Review of the Experience at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, by Kaye, Alison E. M.D.; Belz, Jessica M. M.D.; Kirschner, Richard E. M.D., Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, August 2009 - Volume 124 - Issue 2 - pp 551-558.
• Head and Neck Dog Bites in Children, by Angelo Monroy, MD, Philomena Behar, MD, Mark Nagy, MD, Christopher Poje, MD, Michael Pizzuto, MD, and Linda Brodsky, MD, Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, 140, 354-357 2009.
• A Ten-Year, Two-Institution Review of Pediatric Dog Attacks: Advocating for a Nationwide Prohibition of Dangerous Dogs, by Jugpal S. Arneja, MD, FRCSC, Kara Pappas, B.S., William Huettner, M.D., Arlene A. Rozzelle, M.D., Gurbalbir Singh, M.D., FRCSC., American Association of Plastic Surgeons - 2008 Annual Meeting
• Pitbull Mauling Deaths in Detroit, by Cheryl L. Lowe MD, Francisco J. Diaz MD, and John Bechinski DO, The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, Vol 28, December 2007.
• Hospitalizations Resulting from Dog Bite Injuries -- Alaska, 1991-2002, compiled by Louisa Castrodale, Int J Circumpolar Health, 2007 Sep;66(4):320-7.
• Nonfatal Dog Bite--Related Injuries Treated in Hospital Emergency Departments --- United States, 2001, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), 2003; 52(26): 605-610.
• Incidence of Dog Bite Injuries Treated in Emergency Departments (1992-1994), by Harold B. Weiss, MS, MPH; Deborah I. Friedman; Jeffrey H. Coben, MD., Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), 1998:279-1.
• Dog Bites: How Big of a Problem?, by Sacks JJ, Kresnow M, Houston B, Injury Prevention, 1996; 2:52-54.
• Mauling by Pit Bull Terriers: Case Report, by Baack BR, Kucan JO, Demarest G, Smoot EC, Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care, 29(4):517-520, April 1989.
• Pit Bull Attack: Case Report and Literature Review, by Steven F. Vegas, MD, Jason H. Calhoun, MD, M. Eng., John Mader, MD, Texas Medicine, Vol. 84, November 1988.
• The Ecology of Dog Bite Injury in St. Louis, Missouri, by Beck A, Loring H, and Lockwood R, Public Health Reports, 90:262-269, 1975.

Emotional injury

• Mental Health Consequences of Trauma: The Unseen Scars, by Michael Finn Ziegler, Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages 57-64; March 2010.
• Selective mutism due to a dog bite trauma in a 4-year-old girl: a case report, by Dimitrios Anyfantakis, Emmanouil Botzakis, Evangelos Mplevrakis, Emmanouil K Symvoulakis and Ioannis Arbiros, Journal of Medical Case Reports, 3:100 November 2009.
• Psychological Impact of Trauma on Developing Children and Youth, by C. Richard Spates, Nishani Samaraweera, Brian Plaisier, Theresa Souza and Kanako Otsu, Primary care, Volume 34, Issue 2, Pages 387-405; June 2007.
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder After Dog Bites in Children, by Vincent Peters, Martine Sottiaux, Jocelyne Appelboom and André Kahn, Journal of pediatrics, Volume 144, Issue 1, Pages 121-122; January 2004 (View related article).

Dog bite fatalities

• Dog Attack Deaths Maimings, U.S. & Canada, September 1982 to December 22, 2009, by Merritt Clifton, Animal People, December 22, 2009.
• Report: U.S. Dog Bite Fatalities January 2006 to December 2008, by DogsBite.org, www.DogsBite.org, April 20, 2009.
• Breeds of Dogs Involved in Fatal Human Attacks in the United States Between 1979 and 1998, by Sacks, Sinclair, Gilchrist, Golab and Lockwood, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, September 15, 2000, Vol. 217, No. 6, Pages 836-840.
• Dog-Bite-Related Fatalities United States, 1995-1996, by R Lockwood, PhD, Morbidity and Mortality Report, CDC, May 30, 1997, Vol.46, No.21.
• Fatal Dog Attacks, 1989-1994, by Sacks JJ, Lockwood R, Hornreich J, Sattin RW, Pediatrics, 1996;97:891-5.
• Dog Bite-Related Fatalities from 1979 through 1988, by J. J. Sacks, R. W. Sattin and S. E. Bonzo, Unintentional Injury Section, CDC.
• Traumatic Deaths from Dog Attacks In the United States, by Pickney LE. Kennedy LA, Pediatrics, 1982;691:193-196.
• Fatal dog attacks in Canada, 1990–2007, by Malathi Raghavan, Canadian Veterinary Journal, 2008 June; 49(6): 577–581.

Dog behavior

• Pit Bulls, by Gary Wilkes, Off Lead & Animal Behavior, Volume 11, Edition 1, Spring 2010.
• The 100 Silliest Things People Say About Dogs, by Alexander Semyonova, Hastings Press, 2009.
• Aggressive Behavior in Adopted Dogs that Passed a Temperament Test, by E'Lise Christensen, Janet Scarletta, Michael Campagnaa and Katherine Albro Houpta, Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Volume 106, Issues 1-3, August 2007.
• Aggressive Dog Breeds: Document nr. 1; Heritability of Behavior in the Abnormally Aggressive Dog, by A. Semyonova, The Carriage House Foundation, November 2006.
• Aggressive Dog Breeds: Document nr. 3; Backward Reasoning, Crooked Logic, Sudden Denial -- i.e., Human Pathologies, by A. Semyonova, The Carriage House Foundation, Baltimore, November 2006.
• The Care of Pit Bulls in the Shelter Environment, by Leslie D. Appel DVM, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), ShelterMedicine.com, 2005.
• Dog Bite Prevention for Law Enforcement and Other First Responders, by Randall Lockwood, PhD, Tawzer Dog Videos, 2004 (View partial transcript).
• The Ethology and Epidemiology of Canine Aggression, by Randall Lockwood, The Domestic Dog: Its Evolution, Behaviour, and Interactions with People, edited by James Serpell, Cambridge University Press, 1995.; republished in Animal Law and Dog Behavior, Ed. David Favre and Peter L. Borchelt, PhD, 1999.
• Do's and Don'ts Concerning Vicious Dogs, by D.A. Clifford, DVM, MPH, PhD, AVMA Professional Liability Insurance Trust, 1993 (View excerpt document).
• Killer Genes Ate My Dog; Animal Behavior (Are Pit Bulls Inherently Dangerous), The Economist, June 1, 1991.
• The Pit Bull Dilemma: The Gathering Storm, by Donald H. Clifford (compiler), Kay Ann Green (editor), Ronald M. Watterson (editor), Charles Press Publishers PA, December 1990.
• Are "Pit Bulls" Different? An Analysis of the Pit Bull Terrier Controversy, by Randall Lockwood and Kate Rindy, Anthrozoos, Vol. 1 Number 1, 2-8, 1987.
• Dog Pack Attack: Hunting Humans, by Avis, Simon P. M.D. F.R.C.P.C, The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, Volume 20(3), September 1999, pp 243-246.
• Attacks by Packs of Dogs Involving Predation on Human Beings, by Borchelt PL, Lockwood R, Beck AM, and Voith VL, Public Health Reports, 98:57-66, 1983.

Dog law issues

• Breed-Specific Legislation & Pit Bull Laws Around the World, by Wikipedia (eBook), www.wikipedia.org, May 11, 2010.
• Profiling Two Sides of the Issue, edited by Bernard E. Rollin, Phd, contributions by Alan M. Beck, Sc.D. and Ledy VanKavage, Esq, Veterinary Forum, January, 2007.
• Denver's Pit Bull Ordinance - History and Judicial Rulings, Kory A. Nelson, Senior City Attorney for the City of Denver, April 15, 2005.
• One City's Experience, by Kory A. Nelson, Senior City Attorney for the City of Denver, Municipal Lawyer, July/August 2005.
• Barking Mad? Risk Regulation and Control of Dangerous Dogs in Germany, by Martin Lodge, German Politics, Vol.10 No.3, December 2001.
• Banning the Pit Bull: Why Breed-Specific Legislation is Constitutional, by Sallyanne K. Sullivan, University of Dayton Law Review, Winter, 1988.

Pit bull owners

• Vicious Dogs: The Antisocial Behaviors and Psychological Characteristics of Owners, by Laurie Ragatz, M.A., William Fremouw, Ph.D., Tracy Thomas, M.A., and Katrina McCoy, B.S., Journal of Forensic Sciences, March 3, 2009.
• Ownership of High Risk ("Vicious") Dogs as a Marker for Deviant Behaviors: Implications for Risk Assessment, by Jaclyn E. Barnes, Barbara W. Boat, Frank W. Putnam, Harold F. Dates, Andrew R. Mahlman, Journal for Interpersonal Violence, 2006; 21; 1616.
• Views of College Students on Pit Bull "Ownership" New Providence, The Bahamas, by Tyrone J. Burrows Jr., William J. Fielding, The College of the Bahamas, Society & Animals, 13-2; 2005.
• Managing the Stigma of Outlaw Breeds: A Case Study of Pit Bull Owners, by Hillary Twining, Arnold Arluke, Gary Patronek, Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy, Society & Animals Journal of Human-Animal Studies, Vol. 8 Number 1, 2000.
• Dogmen: The Rationalization of Deviance, by Craig J. Forsythe, Rhonda D. Evans, Texas A&M University, Society & Animals Journal of Human-Animal Studies, Vol. 6 Number 3, 1998 .

Ageless articles

• The Enduring Agony of a Pit Bull Rampage, by Carolyn Starks and John Keilman, The Chicago Tribune, August 13, 2006.
• The Pit Bull: Friend and Killer, by EM Swift, Sports Illustrated, July 27, 1987.
• Time Bombs on Legs, by David Brand, Scott Brown and D. Blake Hallanan, Time Magazine, July 27, 1987.
• Series of Pit Bull Attacks Stirs a Clamor for Laws, by Peter Applebome, New York Times, July 12, 1987.
• Pit Bulls -- Family Pets and Fierce Fighters, by Tom Greeley, Los Angeles Times, July 25, 1982.
• Pit Bulls: Fighters to the Death, by George Bryson, Anchorage Daily News, June 27, 1979.
• Bulldog's Bites, Boston Daily, September 3, 1897.