RT Book T1 Animals as crime victims A2 Levitt, Lacey A2 Rosengard, David A2 Rubin, Jessica LA English PP Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA PB Edward Elgar Publishing YR 2024 ED First edition UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1916305776 AB "This innovative and prescient book offers a multidisciplinary framework which reconceptualizes maltreated animals as crime victims. Articulating more active and involved responses to animal maltreatment, Animals as Crime Victims provides guidance to attorneys, law enforcement personnel, veterinarians, and educators by reimagining how animals are positioned within the law. Lacey Levitt, David B. Rosengard, and Jessica Rubin bring together expert contributors from various fields who argue for reconceptualizing animals as crime victims and examine the legal ramifications of doing so. Chapters explore how recognition as crime victims not only makes animals and their own interests visible within the law but affords them substantive rights. Alongside a proposed legal framework, this incisive book details modern scientific discoveries regarding the complexity of animals' cognition and emotions and the historical and contemporary sociological shifts in our relationships with animals. Animals as Crime Victims will be a vital read for academics, students, and practitioners whose work focuses on animal maltreatment, animal law, or human-animal studies. Including in-depth examples, practical information, and exploration of substantive law alongside legal theory, this book will be useful to lawyers, law enforcement personnel, criminologists, and veterinary and mental health professionals confronting crimes against animals or the humans committing them"-- OP 324 CN K3620.A55 SN 978-1-80220-988-4 K1 Animal welfare : Law and legislation K1 Animal Rights DO 10.4337/9781802209884