发表于2025-01-22
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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This pioneering work in English brings together an amazing assemblage of court cases in which animals have been named as defendants--chickens, rats, field mice, bees, gnats, and (in 34 recorded instances) pigs, among others--providing insight into such modern issues as animal rights, capital punishment, and social and criminal theory. Evans suggests an intriguing distinction between trials of specific animals or particular crimes (the ""murder"" of an infant by a pig, for example) and trials of animals for larger, catastrophic events such as plagues and infestations. In the latter case, Evans suggests a parallel to witchcraft.
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书