Murdering Animals

Piers Beirne is Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Southern Maine, USA. The founder of nonspeciesist criminology, he is recognized as a leading scholar in green criminology and animal abuse studies.

• 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?

“The central argument that brings this book together is that animals have a right to live their lives free from humanity’s needs, wants or presumed supremacy over them. … This book is suitable for criminologists and for scholars who study legal issues and animals, as well as animal rights activists, humanities’ scholars and artists who have depicted injustices toward animals.” (Shannon T. Grugan, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, February, 2019)​