Murdering Animals Writings on Theriocide, Homicide and Nonspeciesist Criminology /

• Main Author: Beirne, Piers (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 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.; Green Criminology.; Violence and Crime.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics.

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...

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?