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Confronting Animal Abuse
Law, Criminology, and Human-Animal Relationships
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2009
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Confronting Animal Abuse presents a powerful examination of the human-animal relationship and the laws designed to protect it. Piers Beirne, a leading scholar in the growing field of green criminology, explores the heated topic of animal abuse in agriculture, science, and sport, as well as what is known, if anything, about the potential for animal assault to lead to inter-human violence. He convincingly shows how from its roots in the Irish plow-fields of 1635 through today, animal-rights legislation has been primarily shaped by human interest and why we must reconsider the terms of human-animal relationships. Beirne argues that if violations of animals' rights are to be taken seriously, then scholars and activists should examine why some harms to animals are defined as criminal, others as abusive but not criminal and still others as neither criminal nor abusive. Confronting Animal Abuse points to the need for a more inclusive concept of harms to animals, without which the meaning of animal abuse will be overwhelmingly confined to those harms that are regarded as socially unacceptable, one-on-one cases of animal cruelty. Certainly, those cases demand attention. But so, too, do those other and far more numerous institutionalized harms to animals, where abuse is routine, invisible, ubiquitous and often defined as socially acceptable. In this pioneering, pro-animal book Beirne identifies flaws in our traditional understanding of human-animal relationships, and proposes a compelling new approach.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-4743-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7425-9974-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
238
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
List of Illustrations No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 20
Chapter 01. Against Cruelty? Understanding the Act Against Plowing by the Tayle (Ireland, 1635) No access Pages 21 - 68
Chapter 02. The Prosecution of Animal Cruelty in Puritan Massachusetts, 1636–1683 No access Pages 69 - 96
Chapter 03. Toward a Sociology of Animal Sexual Assault No access Pages 97 - 140
Chapter 04. Horse Maiming and the Sport of Kings No access Pages 141 - 164
Chapter 05. Is There a Progression from Animal Abuse to Interhuman Violence? No access Pages 165 - 194
Epilogue No access Pages 195 - 200
Appendix 1: Act Against Plowing by the Tayle and Pulling the Wooll off Living Sheep (Ireland, 1635) No access Pages 201 - 202
Appendix 2: Act to prevent the custom of burning of corne in the straw (Ireland, 1635) No access Pages 203 - 204
Appendix 3: “Of the Bruite Creature” No access Pages 205 - 206
