Animal Cruelty, Human Violence, and the Animal-Industrial Complex

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-22501-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

In this book Piers Beirne confronts animal cruelty. Further advancing the multidisciplinary research program in non-speciesist and green criminology he has pursued for three decades. Beirne finds existing approaches to animal cruelty to be heavily burdened by religious, cultural and, especially, juridic baggage.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beirne, Piers

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Rechtsmedizin, Forensik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Tier- und Umweltschutz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Non-Speciesist Animal Turn in Criminology 3. Approaching Animal Cruelty: Psycho-Social and Animal Rights Perspectives 4. Animal-Industrial Complex and the Fiction of Animal Cruelty Law 5. Death and Disease in the Animal-Industrial Complex 6. Animals, Women and Verbal Violence: A Non-Speciesist Etymology of the Unsayable 7. LGBTQIA2S+ and Interspecies Sex: Queer Theory and Ethical Debates 8. Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Piers Beirne is emeritus professor of sociology and legal studies at the University of Southern Maine. Among his books are Murdering Animals (2018); Hogarth’s Art of Animal Cruelty (2015); Confronting Animal Abuse (2009); Issues in Green Criminology (2007, edited with Nigel South); and Inventing Criminology (1997).