Book contents
- Beyond Cages
- Beyond Cages
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Setting the Stage: How Incarcerating Humans Became a Salient Feature of Efforts to Protect Non-Humans
- 2 Putting Carceral Animal Law in Context: An Overview of the Mass Criminalization Problem in the United States
- 3 A Descriptive Account of the Carceral Animal Law System
- 4 General Critiques of the Carceral Turn in Animal Protection
- 5 Race, Mass Criminalization, and Animal Law
- 6 Animal Protection and the “Link” Between Animal Abuse and Human Violence
- 7 Anticipating Challenges to the Critique of Carceral Animal Law
- 8 Conclusion: Toward a New Research and Advocacy Agenda for Animal Protection
- Index
1 - Setting the Stage: How Incarcerating Humans Became a Salient Feature of Efforts to Protect Non-Humans
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 April 2019
Book contents
- Beyond Cages
- Beyond Cages
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Setting the Stage: How Incarcerating Humans Became a Salient Feature of Efforts to Protect Non-Humans
- 2 Putting Carceral Animal Law in Context: An Overview of the Mass Criminalization Problem in the United States
- 3 A Descriptive Account of the Carceral Animal Law System
- 4 General Critiques of the Carceral Turn in Animal Protection
- 5 Race, Mass Criminalization, and Animal Law
- 6 Animal Protection and the “Link” Between Animal Abuse and Human Violence
- 7 Anticipating Challenges to the Critique of Carceral Animal Law
- 8 Conclusion: Toward a New Research and Advocacy Agenda for Animal Protection
- Index
Summary
This chapter provides a general history of the salience of punishment as an aspect of the animal protection movement agenda. It examines the view that as a historical matter criminal law was the only source of law that seemed to support animal protection.
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- Beyond CagesAnimal Law and Criminal Punishment, pp. 12 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019