The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals

The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals

Author: Edward Payson Evans

Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1886363528

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Can an Animal Commit a Crime? This pioneering work collects an amazing assemblage of court cases in which animals have been named as defendants--chickens, rats, field mice, bees, gnats, and (in 34 recorded instances) pigs, among others-- providing insight into such modern issues as animal rights, capital punishment, and social and criminal theory. Evans suggests an intriguing distinction between trials of specific animals or particular crimes, such as the "murder" of an infant by a pig, and trials for larger, catastrophic events, such as plagues and infestations. In the latter case, Evans suggests a parallel to witchcraft. Edward Payson Evans [1831-1917], a historian, linguist and associate of Ralph Waldo Emerson, taught at the University of Michigan before moving to Germany, where he became a specialist in Oriental languages and German literature. A prolific author, his other Animal-related books are Animal Symbolism in Art and Literature and Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture, both published in 1887. CONTENTS Introduction 1. Bugs and Beasts before the Law 2. Mediæval and Modern Penology Appendix Bibliography Index


Murdering Animals

Murdering Animals

Author: Piers Beirne

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-03-12

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1137574682

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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 animals in early modern Europe; images of hunters put on trial by their prey in the upside-down world of the Dutch Golden Age; the artist William Hogarth’s patriotic depictions of animals in 18th Century London; and the playwright J.M. Synge’s representation of parricide in fin de siècle Ireland. Combining insights from intellectual history, the history of the fine and performing arts, and what is known about today’s invisibilised sites of animal killing, Murdering Animals inevitably asks: should theriocide be considered murder? With its strong multi- and interdisciplinary approach, this work of collaboration will appeal to scholars of social and species justice in animal studies, criminology, sociology and law.


An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

Author: Cesare Beccaria

Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1584776382

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Reprint of the fourth edition, which contains an additional text attributed to Voltaire. Originally published anonymously in 1764, Dei Delitti e Delle Pene was the first systematic study of the principles of crime and punishment. Infused with the spirit of the Enlightenment, its advocacy of crime prevention and the abolition of torture and capital punishment marked a significant advance in criminological thought, which had changed little since the Middle Ages. It had a profound influence on the development of criminal law in Europe and the United States.


Strange Histories

Strange Histories

Author: Darren Oldridge

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1134442157

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Strange Histories presents a serious account of some of the most extraordinary occurrences of European and North American history and explains how they made sense to people living at the time. Using case studies from the Middle Ages and the early modern period, this book provides fascinating insights into the world-view of a vanished age and shows how such occurences fitted in quite naturally with the "common sense" of the time. Explanations of these phenomena, riveting and ultimately rational, encourage further reflection on what shapes our beliefs today. What made reasonable, educated men and women behave in ways that seem utterly nonsensical to us today? This question and many more are answered in this fascinating book.


The Death of Punishment

The Death of Punishment

Author: Robert Blecker

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2013-11-19

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1137381337

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For twelve years Robert Blecker, a criminal law professor, wandered freely inside Lorton Central Prison, armed only with cigarettes and a tape recorder. The Death of Punishment tests legal philosophy against the reality and wisdom of street criminals and their guards. Some killers' poignant circumstances should lead us to mercy; others show clearly why they should die. After thousands of hours over twenty-five years inside maximum security prisons and on death rows in seven states, the history and philosophy professor exposes the perversity of justice: Inside prison, ironically, it's nobody's job to punish. Thus the worst criminals often live the best lives. The Death of Punishment challenges the reader to refine deeply held beliefs on life and death as punishment that flare up with every news story of a heinous crime. It argues that society must redesign life and death in prison to make the punishment more nearly fit the crime. It closes with the final irony: If we make prison the punishment it should be, we may well abolish the very death penalty justice now requires.


Animal Cruelty: Criminology & Prosecution

Animal Cruelty: Criminology & Prosecution

Author: Prabhakar Shah

Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)

Published: 2014-03-19

Total Pages: 57

ISBN-13: 3954892340

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Animal cruelty and human life makes a bond. What is the real bond about and what chain is missing is the main framework of this book. Loving non-human animals means loving ourselves. Respecting animals desire means respecting one-selves. Though our love is sweet, our pain for animal is bitter. Current context on animal cruelty all over the world is visualized in this book with an emphasis why and where! This book is specially designed for the one who tries to care the feeling of animals and who does support the green world oflove among everybody.


The Welfare of Performing Animals

The Welfare of Performing Animals

Author: David A. H. Wilson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-02-20

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 3662458349

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This timely book describes and analyses a neglected area of the history of concern for animal welfare, discussing the ends and means of the capture, transport, housing and training of performing animals, as well as the role of pressure groups, politics, the press and vested interests. It examines primary source material of considerable interdisciplinary interest, and addresses the influence of scientific and veterinary opinion and the effectiveness of proposals for supervisory legislation, noting the current international status and characteristics of present-day practice within the commercial sector. Animal performance has a long history, and at the beginning of the twentieth century this aspect of popular entertainment became the subject not just of a major public controversy but also of prolonged British parliamentary attention to animal welfare. Following an assessment of the use of trained animals in the more distant historical past, the book charts the emergence of criticism and analyses the arguments and evidence used by the opponents and proponents in Britain from the early twentieth century to the present, noting comparable events in the United States and elsewhere.