Topic outline

  • Vegan Criminology

    Welcome to the Vegan Criminology Classroom

    This classroom and the Vegan Criminology website were developed to help visitors learn about veganism and criminology, and the links between them. This 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. 

    • Course Philosophy Page
      Course Philosophy

      A work in progress, more questions than answers, with much of the following in outline form, this course adopts the following principles.

        • DIY
        • Teaching Without Borders
        • Open - Not all links are durable. 
        • Another version of this course will focus on criminology issues, with reliance on scholarly research that is (sadly) closed to much of the public.
    • Course Organization Page
      Course Organization

      Water

      • Enjoy the Drink
      • Modules
      • Suggested Readings
      • Self-paced
      • Personalized/Adaptive

  • Vegan Criminology?

    • Why Vegan? Page

      Why Vegan?
      • Veganism is trendy (a term used with reluctance) and the use of this term is likely to attract attention to an important topic.
      • Vegans Only?
        • Vegans (and Criminologists) have a wide range of interests and commitments, many overlapping.
        • Absolutism - Veganism's Worst Enemy?
        • Reducetarian
        • Becoming Vegan

    • 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

    • Where Criminology? Page
      Where Criminology?
    • Constructing Animals Page
      Social Construction

      • Constructing Animals
      • Food and Farms
      • Vegans and Meat Eaters
      • Video: Animals, Social Construction, and Intersectionality

  • Animals

    • Meat is Murder Page
      Meat is Murder 

      • Nonviolence/Pacifist Philosophy
        • A plant-based diet is an easy way to avoid violence
        • Mitigating/Preventing harm - The primary goal of the justice system?
      • Theory
        • Understanding Violence
        • Understanding Social Construction
        • Motivating/Documenting Social Change

    • Animals Have Rights? Page
      Do Animals Have Rights?

      • Animal Rights
      • Can Animals Be Victims of Crimes?
      • Victims' Rights and Social Justice
      • Harm

    • Human/Animal Suffering Page
      Human/Animal Suffering

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

    • 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

    • Violence Against Animals Page
      Violence Against Animals

      • FBI
      • Institutional
      • Cultural
      • Deviance
      • Linking Animal/Human Violence
      • Animal/Domestic Violence 
      • Veterinarians: Discovering Animal Abuse

    • The Moral Status of Animals Page
      The Moral Status of Animals 

      • Philosophical Debates
      • Ethical Humanism and Animal Rights
      • Animal Liberation
      • Animal Rights

    • Advocating for Animals Page
      Advocating for Animals

      • Organizations
      • What a Fish Knows
      • Smarter Than We Think
      • Silence from other environmental advocates? - Cowspiracy
      • Sanctuaries
    • The Animal Protection Movement Page
      The Animal Protection Movement

      • The battle over animal research
      • SLAPP and Ag-Gag
      • Animal Rights Activism

    • 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

  • 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
    • 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

  • Farm

    • Farm Crime Page
      Farm Crime
    • 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
    • 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

    • Economic Impact Page
      Economic Impact

      • Economy
      • Bladen County, NC
      • NC Pork Producers
      • Recycling
      • Necropsy - protect industry
      • China - Ownership and Practices

  • Environment

    • Green Criminology Page
      Green Criminology

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

    • Wildlife Page
      Wildlife

      • Green?
      • Trade
      • Hunting
      • Reintroducing “predators”
      • Protecting wildlands
      • Invasive species - gators, snails, and eels - oh my!
      • The Social Value of Things

    • The Environmental Protection Movement Page
      The Environmental Protection Movement

      • Environmental Ethics
      • Examine Environmental Harms from a Criminological Perspective
      • Victims
      • Offenders

  • 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

    • Goals? Page
      Goals?

      • What is the goal of Vegan Criminology?
      • Reducing harm or eliminating all violence?
      • Is Vegan Criminology a viable concept?
      • Clearer focus, shift thinking to include harm to animals
      • Authors with energy/motivation