Murdering Animals Writings on Theriocide, Homicide and Nonspeciesist Criminology /

Murdering Animals confronts the speciesism underlying the disparate social censures of homicide and "theriocide" (the killing of animals by humans), and as such, is a plea to take animal rights seriously. Its substantive topics include the criminal prosecution and execution of justiciable...

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Main Author: Beirne, Piers (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology
Subjects:
Offenses against the environment.
Violence.
Crime.
Social justice.
Human rights.
Ethics.
Animal welfare.
ISBN:9781137574688
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Rights for Whom?
  • Chapter 2. Theriocide and Homicide
  • Chapter 3. Hunting Worlds Turned Upside Down: Paulus Potter's Life of a Hunter
  • Chapter 4. On the Geohistory of Justiciable Animals: Was Britain a Deviant Case?
  • Chapter 5. Hogarth's Patriotic Animals: Bulldogs, Beef, Brittania!
  • Chapter 6. Gallous Stories or Dirty Deeds? Representing Parricide in J.M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World Playboy of the Western World
  • Chapter 7. Is Theriocide Murder?

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