Beyond cages : animal law and criminal punishment / Justin Marceau, University of Denver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marceau, Justin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal welfare--Law and legislation--United States.

Animal welfare.

Animal welfare--Law and legislation.

Animals--Law and legislation.

United States.

Animals--Law and legislation--United States.

Animals.

Animal welfare--United States.

Punishment--United States.

Punishment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 293 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

For all the diversity of views within the animal protection movement, there is a surprising consensus about the need for more severe criminal justice interventions against animal abusers. More prosecutions and longer sentences, it is argued, will advance the status of animals in law and society. Breaking from this mold, Professor Justin Marceau demonstrates that a focus on 'carceral animal law' puts the animal rights movement at odds with other social justice movements, and may be bad for humans and animals alike. Animal protection efforts need to move beyond cages and towards systemic solutions if the movement hopes to be true to its own defining ethos of increased empathy and resistance to social oppression. Providing new insights into how the lessons of criminal justice reform should be imported into the animal abuse context, Beyond Cages is a valuable contribution to the literature on animal welfare and animal rights law.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Mar 2019).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781108277877

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.