The Palgrave International Handbook of Animal Abuse Studies

This Handbook fills a large gap in current scholarly literature on animal abuse studies. The Handbook is a unique text: it is essential reading for students, researchers, academics, activists and policy makers involved in understanding and preventing animal abuse.. It moves considerably beyond the debate that has traditionally dominated the discourse of animal abuse – the link between one-on-one interpersonal violence and animal abuse – and towards those institutionalised forms of animal abuse which are routine, everyday, socially acceptable and invisibilised. Chapters from expert contributors raise issues such as: the use of animals as edibles; vivisection; animal sexual assault; animals used in sport and hunting; animal trafficking; the use of animals by youth gangs, by other groups and in war; species extinction; and the passivity of national and internationa

For example, how can it be that these relationships can be characterised by celebration and affection, cruelty and atrocity? How do we reconcile declarations of compassion and care in medicine and farming with some of the practices of laboratories and intensive rearing regimes? This is the authoritative and comprehensive handbook on these questions and more.” (Nigel South, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK)“This terrific new collection, edited by Jennifer Maher, Harriet Pierpoint and Piers Beirne, is the most comprehensive book on animal ab

Dr Jennifer Maher is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Criminology, University of South Wales, UK.