Why Criminology?
Why Criminology?
- Multidisciplinary
- Harm
- Crime or social harm? A dialectical perspective
- Zemiology
- Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy
- Legalistic Definition of Crime and an Alternative View
- Crimes Against Animals
- Animals as Victims
- Animals and Crime at the American Society of Criminology
Readings:
Beirne, P. (1999). For a Nonspeciesist Criminology: Animal Abuse as An Object of Study *. Green Criminology, 29-60. doi:10.4324/9781315093390-2
Fitzgerald, A. J. (2010). The ‘underdog’ as ‘ideal victim’? The attribution of victimhood in the 2007 pet food recall. International Review of Victimology, 17(2), 131–157.
Flynn, C. P. (2011). Examining the links between animal abuse and human violence. Crime, Law and Social Change,55(5), 453-468. doi:10.1007/s10611-011-9297-2
Friedrichs, D. O., & Schwartz, M. D. (2007). Editors’ introduction: On social harm and a twenty-first century criminology. Crime, Law and Social Change,48(1-2), 1-7. doi:10.1007/s10611-007-9080-6
Petersen, M. L., & Farrington, D. P. (2007). Cruelty to Animals and Violence to People. Victims & Offenders,2(1), 21-43. doi:10.1080/15564880600934187
Taylor, N., & Fitzgerald, A. (2018). Understanding animal (ab)use: Green criminological contributions, missed opportunities and a way forward. Theoretical Criminology, 22(3), 402-425. doi:10.1177/1362480618787173
Resources:
- Hillyard, et al. (2004). "Beyond Criminology: Taking Harm Seriously."
- Pemberton (2016). "Harmful societies: Understanding social harm."
- White (2015). "Global Environmental Harm."