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...

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Main Authors: Beirne, Piers (Author), O'Donnell, Ian (Author), Janssen, J. H. L. J (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Series:Palgrave studies in green criminology.
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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?