[Your Name] – Department of Sociology & Criminology, [University]

Kidnapped, Dog, Slave, Girl: Intersections of Violence, Exploitation, and Moral Accounting in Contemporary Discourse

The trailing “30 Karma KR‑015‑52” appears in several forensic and journalistic coding systems (e.g., the International Crime Index, 2023). It designates a cluster of incidents featuring simultaneous human‑to‑human and human‑to‑animal exploitation. By analysing this cluster, we can uncover how law enforcement, media, and civil society narrate, classify, and respond to complex victimisation.