Murdering animals: writings on theriocide, homicide and nonspeciesist criminology

'Murdering Animals' confronts the speciesism underlying the disparate social censures of homicide and 'theriocide' (the killing of animals by humans), and as such, is a plea to take animal rights seriously.

Its substantive topics include the criminal prosecution and execution of justiciable animals in early modern Europe; images of hunters put on trial by their prey in the upside-down world of the Dutch Golden Age; the artist William Hogarth's patriotic depictions of animals in 18th Century London; and the playwright J.M.

Synge's representation of parricide in fin de siècle Ireland.