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Crimes Against Animals

The problem of harm and suffering of animals emerged in the 90s as an important aspect of Green Criminology – the trend concentrating upon the research of crime committed against the natural habitat and animals. The lecture’s content:

1. Animals’ rights – the conceptual analysis;

2. Legal personality of animals;

3. Philosophical, ethical and psychological aspects of the cruelty towards animals;

4. The concept of Animal Welfare;

5. Animals as the subject of interest in victimology;

6. The animals’ right for the protection from suffering in philosophy and ethics;

7. Criminal law protection of animals;

8. Psychological and criminal conditioning of the animal abuse;

9. Cruelty to animals in the courts’ jurisdiction;

10. The admissible use of animals for human purposes and the limits to this usage;

11. Animal as a victim of the human activity, from the perspective of victimology and criminology;

12. The legal protection of animals, as a part of the family abuse protection system;

13. The analysis of the situation of animals in the modern World;

14. The consciousness of animals;

15. Vegetarianism and veganism as a philosophical approach;

16. The punishment execution for animals’ abusers.