Animal Cruelty in UK Law
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Animal protection as animal welfare and anti-cruelty: a genealogical re-examination of the EU seal products ban
This article suggests a way to inquire into animal protection politics as a specific field of international politics which regulates human-animal relations. Based on a genealogical analysis of the ...
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Legal Consequences of Animal Hoarding in New Zealand
A 10-year prohibition against a defendant from owning or exercising authority over any animals has been upheld by the New Zealand Court of Appeal in an animal hoarding case which has progressed thr...... ... also discussesthe stress and burdenthat animal hoardingcases places on theshelters that have the legal responsibility for prosecuting animal cruelty cases in New Zealand.KeywordsAnimal Hoarding, Kondratyeva, prohibition over owning or exercising control over animals,overwhelmed caregiver, rescuer, ... ...
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Risk factors in adolescents’ involvement in violent behaviours
Purpose: – The purpose of this paper is to examine risk factors associated with Western Australian secondary school students’ involvement in violence-related behaviours. Design/methodology/approac...... ... Students involved in greater acts of animal cruelty had increasedodds of being involved in all forms of the violence ... ...
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Animal rights extremism: Victimization, investigation and detection of a campaign of criminal intimidation
UK Ministry of Justice data and documents and police records are used to examine the crimes committed by SHAC (Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty) activists against Huntington Life Sciences, a company ...... ... Ministry of Justice data and documents and police records are used to examine the crimes committed by SHAC (Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty) activists against Huntington Life Sciences, a company using animals for research. The police response and its effects on the animal rights campaign ... ...
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Raw, roast or half-baked? Hogarth’s beef in Calais Gate
Scholars of human–animal studies, literary criticism and art history have paid considerable attention of late to how the visual representation of nonhuman animals has often and sometimes to great e...... ... Abstract Scholars of human–animal studies, literary criticism and art history have paid considerable ... over those of other animal species in discourses of abuse, cruelty and harm ... Keywords Calais Gate (Or, O the Roast Beef of Old ... ...
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`Some Strange Things Happening in our Country': Opposing Proposed Changes in Anti-Cruelty Laws in Canada
Ideologies are most efficient when they operate invisibly to naturalize power relations, yet even the most successful hegemonies are not seamless. Contradictions in ou...... ... Directed at individual acts of violence, anti-cruelty amendmentsproposed in Bill C-15B posed no challenge to animal exploitation industries andconsisted of only moderately increased penalties for deliberately sadistic actions innon-institutional settings. The ... ...
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Developmental Links between Cruelty to Animals and Human
Violence
Abstract Reviews evidence for the significance of childhood cruelty to animals as a predictor of later violence toward humans. Moves are underway in the United ...... ... Moves are under- way in the United States (US) and Britain to encourage communication and cross-fertilisation between animal welfare and child protection and crime prevention services. Literatur e on healthy versus deviant child–pet interactions is reviewed, with ... ...
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Book review: Confronting Animal Abuse: Law, Criminology, and Human–Animal Relationships
... ... Confronting Animal Abuse is unprecedented in its historical approach to the subject ... matter. Tracing the roots of animal cruelty legislation starting in 1635, Beirne provides a ... comprehensive accounting of the genesis of animal rights laws and governmental practices. ... ...
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Book Review: Beyond cages: animal law and criminal punishment by Marceau Justin
... ... meant echoing standard tough-on-crime policy positions charac-terised by a commitment to severe punishment, including expanding punitive anti-cruelty laws,lengthy prison sentences, and zealous enforcement of criminal law (pp. 56–58).The essential tenets of deterrence theory are woven into the ... ...
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Book Review: Paolo Chiocchetti, The Radical Left Party Family in Western Europe, 1989–2015
... ... right to fair trial, pornographic speech and speech that depicts animalaphic speech and speech that depicts animal cruelty ... ...
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