Beyond Cages - Animal Law and Criminal Punishment

Demonstrates how 'carceral animal law' strategies put animal protection efforts at war with general anti-oppression and civil rights efforts.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Incarcerating humans as a salient feature of animal protection; 3. Context: an overview of the mass criminalization problem; 4. A descriptive account and typology of the carceral animal law system; 5. Specific critiques of the carceral turn in animal protection; 6. Race, mass-criminalization and animal law; 7. Punishment and the 'Link' between animal abuse and human violence; 8. Anticipating challenges to the critique of carceral animal law; 9. Conclusion: towards a new research and advocacy agenda for animal protection.

About the author

Justin Marceau is Professor and Animal Legal Defense Fund Professor of Law at the University of Denver. He has been retained as an expert witness in the fields of criminal law and animal law, and has published leading articles in both disciplines. He is the inaugural chair of the Scholars Committee for the Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy, and the current chair of the Animal Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS).

Summary

This is the first book to critique the animal protection movement's alliance with the prosecuting state. For persons researching social change or civil rights, this critique of the strategies of the animal protection movement will serve as a unique and valuable case study.

Product details

• Authors: Justin Marceau, Justin (University of Denver) Marceau
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781108405454
• ISBN: 978-1-108-40545-4
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Human rights & civil liberties law, Criminal law & procedure, Animal law, United States of America, USA, Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Criminal law: procedure and offences