Topic outline

  • Animals in Criminology

    Welcome to the Vegan Criminology Classroom

    This classroom and the Vegan Criminology website were developed to help visitors learn about veganism, criminology, and the links between them. In addition to the website, an open access "class" was developed to be included in a presentation at the 2017 Annual Meetings of the American Society of Criminology. Additional material has been added since then, perhaps too much, but we hope this course is valuable to visitors. 

    Animals in Criminology

    The "Animals in Criminology" class is less helpful as a general learning tool but may be helpful to educators. This class includes a syllabus, which is more of a reading list, for a hypothetical university-level class. This particular class was included in a presentation at the 2018 Annual Meetings of the American Society of Criminology. In contrast to the "open" course hosted on this site, this course is designed for a more "scholarly" environment. Visitors with the opportunity to integrate topics related to "Animals in Criminology" in high school or university classes are welcome to borrow liberally, although library access will be required to view many of the journal articles included in the syllabus. 

    This course is also presented in outline form, adopting the following principles:

    • Design as a typical 15-week course.
    • Rely on scholarly research, open-access when possible.
    • Include views from a variety of disciplines, including international perspectives.
    • Encourage scholars to adopt and refine.

  • Module 1: Vegan Criminology?

    • Why Criminology? Page
      Why Criminology?

      • Multidisciplinary
      • Harm - System is constructed around harm. Why limit the concept of harm to humans?
      • Crimes Against Animals
      • Animals as Victims
      • Animals and Crime at the American Society of Criminology

    • Why Vegan? Page

      Why Vegan?
      • Vegans and Criminologists have a wide range of interests and commitments, many overlapping.
        • Morality
        • Moral Absolutism
        • Absolutism - Veganism's Worst Enemy?
        • Limits of Absolutism
      • Vegan Criminology?

  • Module 2: Animals in Criminology

  • Module 3: Why Animals?

  • Module 4: Human/Animal Suffering

    • Human/Animal Suffering Page
      Human/Animal Suffering

      • Interlinked Systems of Exploitation
      • Speciesism
      • Sexism
      • Racism
      • Patriarchy
      • Feminism

    • Violence Against Animals Page
      Violence Against Animals

      • NIBRS
      • Institutional
      • Cultural
      • Linking Animal/Human Violence
      • Animal/Domestic Violence 
      • Veterinarians: Discovering Animal Abuse
      • Animal Abuser Registries

  • Module 5: Using Animals

    • Using Animals Page
      Using Animals

      • Domestication
      • Work - Assistance, Therapy
      • Policing
      • Corrections
      • Sport
      • Hunting
      • Circuses/Zoos/SeaWorld
      • Science/Testing

    • Eating Animals Page
      Eating Animals

      • Meat Taboos
      • Meat Production
      • Why We Eat Meat: Agribusiness
      • Cultural Implication on Modern Meat Production and Consumption
      • Ethics and Meat Eating

  • Module 6: Protecting Animals

    • Advocating for Animals Page
      Advocating for Animals

      • Organizations
      • What a Fish Knows
      • Smarter Than We Think
      • Silence from other environmental advocates? - Cowspiracy
      • Sanctuaries
    • Animal Law and Lawyering Page
      Animal Law and Lawyering

      • Animal Law
      • Defining Animals and Pain
      • Ethical Foundations of Animal Law
      • Animals as Property
      • Cruelty and Neglect
      • Tort Law: Dog bites, companion animals, product liability
      • Farming and Research
      • Wildlife Law
      • Endangered Species

  • Module 7: Fighting Back

  • Module 8: Food

    • Food Crime Page
      Food Crime
      • Food crime - food criminology
      • Counterfeit food (plastic rice)/food theft
      • Food safety
      • Food Law
      • Tobacco litigation as a model?
      • Corporate Crime
    • Fighting Food Page
      Fighting Food

      • Crime to give away food?
      • Can growing food be a crime?
      • Just Mayo

  • Module 9: Consumers

    • Ethical Consumerism Page
      Ethical Consumption

      • Animal Welfare
      • Grass Fed Beef
      • Dolphin Safe
      • Vegetarian Eggs?
      • Sustainable Fishing?
      • Vegan
      • Corporate Identity

    • Sociology of Food Page
      Sociology and Food

      • Food and Society
      • The Sociology of Food
      • The Philosophy of Food

  • Module 10: Farms

    • Factory Farms Page
      Factory Farms

      • Wendell Berry vs. Earl Butz
        • Culture/Values
      • Environmental Racism
      • Environmental Destruction
      • Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
    • Biopiracy Page
      Biopiracy

      • Biopiracy
      • Extension of property rights
      • Seed rights
      • NMSU and Hatch Chiles 
      • Corporate destruction of land
      • Ecocide

  • Module 11: Farming

  • Module 12: Criminology Discovers Animals

    • Critical Criminology Page
      Critical Criminology

      • What is Critical Criminology?
      • Big Tent

    • Green Criminology Page
      Green Criminology

      • What is Green Criminology?
      • Environmental Harm/Crime
      • Earth Jurisprudence

    • Rural Criminology Page
      Rural Criminology

      • Social Disorganization and Rural Crime
      • Agricultural Crime
        • Livestock and Crop Theft
        • Food Security
        • Formal and Informal Control
      • Food Fraud
      • Farm Animal Abuse
      • Trafficking/Slavery

  • Module 13: Wildlife and Poaching

    • Wildlife Page
      Wildlife

      • Green?
      • Trade
      • Hunting

    • Rewilding Page
      Rewliding


      • Reintroducing Predators
      • Protecting Wildlands
      • Invasive Species
      • The Social Value of Things

  • Module 14: Change

    • Empowerment Through Food Production Page
      Empowerment Through Food Production

      • Food production/distribution as empowerment 
      • Community 
      • Feast Down East
      • Heifer International - Buy a goat - tool, not food
      • Urban Gardening
      • Food Deserts
      • Energy Production
      • Sustainability
      • Grow Plants for Humans

    • Next? Page
      Next?

      • More Vegans
      • Flexitarians
      • Plant-based Food
      • Cultured Meat

  • Module 15