Murdering animals : writings on theriocide, homicide and nonspeciesist criminology / Piers Beirne with Ian O'Donnell and Janine Janssen.

"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 animals i...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Palgrave studies in green criminology.
Main Authors: Beirne, Piers (Author)
O'Donnell, Ian (Author)
Janssen, J. H. L. J. (Author)
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Series:Palgrave studies in green criminology.
Subjects:
Animal welfare.
Animal welfare > Law and legislation.
Animal welfare > Moral and ethical aspects.
Physical Description:xix, 225 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Rights for whom? / Piers Beirne
  • Theriocide and homicide / Piers Beirne
  • Hunting worlds turned upside sown : Paulus Potter's Life of a hunter / Piers Beirne and Janine Janssen
  • On the geohistory of justiciable animals : was Britain a deviant case? / Piers Beirne
  • Hogarth's patriotic animals : bulldogs, beef, Britannia! / Piers Beirne
  • Gallous stories or dirty deeds? : representing parricide in J.M. Synge's Playboy of the western world / Piers Beirne and Ian O'Donnell
  • Is theriocide murder? / Piers Beirne.