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Denying the Harms of Animal Abductions for Biomedical Research

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Green Harms and Crimes

Part of the book series: Critical Criminological Perspectives ((CCRP))

Abstract

When people are confronted with information that is deemed to be so disturbing that it is difficult to remain passive, acknowledgment responses are elicited. By becoming committed to the issue, an act of acknowledgment provides a psychologically and morally appropriate response to what the person knows. However, if a harmful situation exists but its occurrence, its meaning or its implications are effectively denied, then actions against it are avoided and the possibility is created for the situation to persist. Consequently, the practices in question are likely to keep on occurring if they are not recognized as harmful or if their harms are denied (Cohen, 2001).

The truth is that I was not able to sleep. I was not able to sleep knowing that three blocks from my house, illegal experiments on owl monkeys were being conducted.

(Ángela María Maldonado, personal interview)

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Goyes, D.R. (2015). Denying the Harms of Animal Abductions for Biomedical Research. In: Sollund, R.A. (eds) Green Harms and Crimes. Critical Criminological Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137456267_9

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