Animals as Crime Victims

Name: Animals as Crime Victims
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781802209877
Price: 1551.03 HKD
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Author: Lacey Levitt; David Rosengard; Jessica Rubin
ISBN: 9781802209877

Edited by Lacey Levitt · David Rosengard · Jessica Rubin

Edward Elgar Publishing February 2024

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781802209877
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: February 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This innovative and prescient book offers a multidisciplinary framework which reconceptualizes maltreated animals as crime victims. Articulating more active and involved responses to animal maltreatment, Animals as Crime Victims provides guidance to attorneys, law enforcement personnel, veterinarians, and educators by reimagining how animals are positioned within the law.

Lacey Levitt, David B. Rosengard, and Jessica Rubin bring together expert contributors from various fields who argue for reconceptualizing animals as crime victims and examine the legal ramifications of doing so. Chapters explore how recognition as crime victims not only makes animals and their own interests visible within the law but affords them substantive rights. Alongside a proposed legal framework, this incisive book details modern scientific discoveries regarding the complexity of animals'' cognition and emotions and the historical and contemporary sociological shifts in our relationships with animals.

Animals as Crime Victims will be a vital read for academics, students, and practitioners whose work focuses on animal maltreatment, animal law, or human-animal studies. Including in-depth examples, practical information, and exploration of substantive law alongside legal theory, this book will be useful to lawyers, law enforcement personnel, criminologists, and veterinary and mental health professionals confronting crimes against animals or the humans committing them.

Foreword xi; Douglas E. Beloof, J.D.; Introduction to Animals as Crime Victims: the importance of framing animals within criminal law and systems 1; Lacey Levitt, David Rosengard, Jessica Rubin; PART I. AN INTRODUCTION TO ANIMAL MALTREATMENT, THE LAW, AND CRIME VICTIMS’ RIGHTS; 1.
Defining animal maltreatment: historical and contemporary perspectives 10: Kathie L. Jenni; 2.
The legal history of animal protection in the United States 24: David S. Favre; 3.
The (human) victims’ rights movement in twenty-first century United States 41: Margaret Garvin; PART II. ARGUMENTS UNDERLYING THE RECLASSIFICATION OF ANIMALS AS CRIME VICTIMS; 4.
Advances in understanding cognition in animals 53: Lesley J. Rogers and Gisela Kaplan; 5.
The evolving role of animals in contemporary society 67: Lacey Levitt; 6.
The relationship between animal maltreatment and interpersonal violence 99: Brian J. Holoyda; 7.
Proposing a nonhuman animal victimology 114: Melanie Flynn; PART III. LEGAL ISSUES IN THE RECONCEPTUALIZATION OF ANIMALS AS CRIME VICTIMS; 8.
Applying crime victims’ rights to victims of animal maltreatment 133: David Rosengard; 9.
Insights from the nation’s first jurisdiction to statutorily permit court-appointed attorneys for justice in animal: cruelty cases 155; Jessica Rubin; 10.
Responding to animal cruelty and neglect in court: A prosecutor’s journey 166: Jake Kamins; 11.
Assigning animals crime victim status: opposing views and responses 180: Lora Dunn, Will Lowrey, Sherry Ramsey, David Rosengard, Lacey Levitt and Jessica Rubin; PART IV. RECONCEPTUALIZING ANIMALS AS CRIME VICTIMS: POLICY AND PRACTICE; 12.
Mental health professionals recognizing animals as victims 200: Mary Lou Randour; 13.
Preparing law enforcement to respond to animal victims 216: Virginia M. Maxwell and Cassandra L. Reyes; 14.
Preparing veterinarians to respond to animal victims: identifying and documenting physical harm 238: Martha Smith-Blackmore and Sheila Segurson; 15.
Preparing veterinarians to respond to animal victims: understanding and treating the behavioral consequences of maltreatment 255: Sheila Segurson and Martha Smith-Blackmore; 16.
Could “victimhood” be preventable? Opportunities in large-scale neglect 269: Gary Patronek