Animals in Criminology

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?
• Vegan criminology focuses on animal rights and the rights of those who protect animals. Topics of interest include environmental threats, exploiting animals as entertainment, sport, and experimentation, the role of patriarchy, the legal status of animals, and the widespread acceptance of treating animals as food.

Readings:

Cordeiro-Rodrigues, L. (2017). Animal Abolitionism and ‘Racism without Racists’. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 30(6), 745-764. doi:10.1007/s10806-017-9697-0

Rothgerber, H. (2015). Can you have your meat and eat it too? Conscientious omnivores, vegetarians, and adherence to diet. Appetite, 84, 196-203. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2014.10.012

Other Resources:

• Kateman, (2017). The Reducetarian Solution
• Kaplan, (2012). The Philosophy of Food
• Leeneart, (2017). How to Create a Vegan World
• Francione, (2019. Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach
  
• Purdy, (2016). How the vegan movement broke out of its echo chamber and finally started disrupting things