Animal abuse

The Illegal Wildlife Trade in China: Understanding The Distribution Networks

This book offers a theoretically-based study on crimes against protected wildlife in mainland China with first-hand empirical data collected over five years. It provides an overall examination of crimes against protected and endangered wildlife and …

The Crimes of Wildlife Trafficking: Issues of Justice, Legality and Morality (Green Criminology)

This book examines trade and trafficking in endangered animal species and how the trade increasingly puts large numbers of nonhuman species at risk. Focusing on illegal trafficking, the book also discusses the harmful aspects of the trade and …

Murdering Animals: Writings on Theriocide, Homicide and Nonspeciesist Criminology

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 …

For a Nonspeciesist Criminology: Animal Abuse as an Object of Study

This article considers a variety of arguments about why theory and research on animal abuse should be developed by criminologists. These include, with more or less satisfaction, the status of animal abuse as (1) a signifier of actual or potential …