Piers Beirne
Biographic Data
| ID | 256682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Piers Beirne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Piers |
| FAMILY NAME | Beirne |
| SIGNATURE | BEIRNE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Maine |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9525-9784 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 189 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Wildlife Trade and Covid-19: Towards a Criminology of Anthropogenic Pathogen Spillover
The general remit of this paper is the role of wildlife trade in pathogen spillover. Its underlying assumption is that, so far from being the exclusive domain of the life sciences, the study of pathogen spillover will be greatly enhanced by multi-perspectival approaches, including One Health and those employed here, namely, non-speciesist green criminology and critical animal studies. The paper moves from discussions of zoonosis, anthroponosis an…
Ragnhild Aslaug Sollund, The Crimes of Wildlife Trafficking: Issues of Justice, Legality and Morality
Animals, Women and Terms of Abuse: Towards a Cultural Etymology of Con(e)y, Cunny, Cunt and C*nt
Selected Writings on Soviet Law and Marxism
The Latvian-born legal theorist P.I. Stuchka (1865-1932), generally recognized as one of the principal architects of modern Soviet legal theory and the Soviet legal system itself, was a prodigious author and editor. Twenty essays by Stuchka written between 1917 and 1931 were selected for translation
Raw, roast or half-baked? Hogarth’s beef in Calais Gate
Scholars of human–animal studies, literary criticism and art history have paid considerable attention of late to how the visual representation of nonhuman animals has often and sometimes to great effect been used in the imagining of national identity. It is from the scrutinies of these several disciplines that the broad backcloth of this article is woven. Its focus is the neglected coupling of patriotism and carnism, instantiated here by its depl…
The Palgrave International Handbook of Animal Abuse Studies
This Handbook fills a large gap in current scholarly literature on animal abuse studies. It moves considerably beyond the debate that has traditionally dominated the discourse of animal abuse – the li
Issues in Green Criminology
Hogarth’s Animals
It is well established that discursive innovations in literature and philosophy encouraged pro-animal sentiments in 18th-century England. Far less well known in this regard is the "animal turn" in the graphic arts. This article seeks to redress this imbalance by documenting the extensive representation of animals in the paintings, drawings, and printed engravings of the English artist William Hogarth (1697-1764). It outlines the four chief ways i…
Gallous stories or dirty deeds? Representing parricide in J.M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World
The most famous play in the history of Irish theater, J.M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World has been oddly neglected in sociology and criminology. This article examines the provenance of the violence around which Playboy’s dizzying text swirls, namely, a tragicomic parricide seemingly twice committed. In particular, we ask: is the text plausible? Though Synge’s authorial intentions are not open to complete reclamation, we explore first, h…
Confronting Animal Abuse: Law, Criminology, and Human-Animal Relationships
Introduction Chapter 1 Against Cruelty? The Act Against Plowing by the Tayle Chapter 2 The Prosecution of Animal Cruelty in Puritan Massachusetts, 1636-1683 Chapter 3 Towards a Sociology of Animal Sexual Assault Chapter 4 Horse Maiming and the Sport of Kings Chapter 5 Is There a Progression from Animal Abuse to Interhuman Violence? Epilogue
From Animal Abuse to Interhuman Violence? A Critical Review of the Progression Thesis
This paper reviews evidence of a progression from animal abuse to interhuman violence. It finds that the "progression thesis" is supported not by a coherent research program but by disparate studies often lacking methodological and conceptual clarity. Set in the context of a debate about the theoretical adequacy of concepts like "animal abuse" and "animal cruelty," it suggests that the link between animal abuse and interhuman violence should be s…
Criminology and Animal Studies: A Sociological View
Most readers of Society a Animals probably will notnknow that among the multi-disciplinary practitionersnof criminology there is longstanding and, at times,nquite heated disagreement about its proper objectsnof study. As a sociologist, I understand criminologynto be a discourse that investigates the whys, the hows,nand the whens of the generation and control of thenmany aspects of social harmmincluding abuse, exclusion,npain, injury, and
Horse Maiming in the English Countryside: Moral Panic, Human Deviance, and the Social Construction of Victimhood
The societal reaction to a series of horse assaults in rural Hampshire during the 1990s was a rare example of a moral panic about crime and deviance in which animals other than humans occupy, or seemed to occupy, the central role of victim. This paper explores how the nature of the relationships between humans and animals is revealed through authoritative utterances about offenders and victims by the mass media, the police, and the humans who fel…
Peter Singer's ``Heavy Petting'' and the Politics of Animal Sexual Assault
For a Nonspeciesist Criminology: Animal Abuse as an Object of Study
This article considers a variety of arguments about why theory and research on animal abuse should be developed by criminologists. These include, with more or less satisfaction, the status of animal abuse as (1) a signifier of actual or potential interhuman conflict, (2) an existing object of criminal law, (3) an item in the utilitarian calculus on the avoidance of pain and suffering, (4) a violation of rights, and (5) one of several oppressions …
Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement
Rethinking Bestiality: Towards a Concept of Interspecies Sexual Assault
This paper seeks to introduce a view of bestiality which differs radically from both the anthropocentrism enshrined in the dogma of Judaeo-Christianity and also from the pseudo-liberal tolerance fashionable today. I argue that bestiality should be understood as `interspecies sexual assault' because the situation of animals as abused victims parallels that of women and, to some extent, that of infants and children and further because (1) human-ani…
Inventing Criminology: "Essays on the Rise of "Homo Criminalis
Inventing Criminology: Essays on the Rise of Homo Criminalis
The Law is an Ass: Reading E.P. Evans' The Medieval Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals
In this essay I address a little-known chapter in the lengthy history of crimes against (nonhuman) animals. My focus is not crimes committed by humans against animals, as such, but a practical outcome of the seemingly bizarre belief that animals are capable of committing crimes against humans.2 I refer here to the medieval practice whereby animals were prosecuted and punished for their misdeeds, aspects of which readers are likely to have encount…
Revolution in Law: Contributions to the Development of Soviet Legal Theory, 1917-1938
Designed to meet the curriculum needs of students from grades 7-12, this five-volume encyclopedia explores the history and civilizations of the ancient world from prehistory to approximately 1000 CE. Organized alphabetically within geographical volumes on Africa, Europe, the Americas, Southwest Asia, and Asia and the Pacific, entries cover the social, political, scientific and technological, economic, and cultural events and developments that sha…
Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law, and Policy in England, 1830- 1914
Inventing Criminology: The “Science of Man” in Cesare Beccaria's Dei Delitti E Delle Pene (1764)
This paper challenges existing images of the context and object of Cesare Beccaria's (1764) Dei delitti e delle pene . It offers textual and other evidence that the chief object of Beccaria's famous treatise was the application to crime and penality not of humanism and legal rationality, as convention holds, but of the Scottish‐inspired “science of man.” This latter was a deterministic discourse whose key principles—utilitarianism, probabilism, a…
Selected Writings on Soviet Law and Marxism
Selected Writings on Soviet Law and Marxism
Journal Article P.I. Stuchka (ed.): Selected Writings on Soviet Law and Marxism Get access Selected Writings ON Soviet Law AND Marxism. By P.I. Stuchka. Edited, annotated, translated, and introduced by Robert Sharlet, Peter B. Maggs, and Piers BeirneArmonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1988. Pp. xxii, 251. Edgar Bodenheimer Edgar Bodenheimer *Professor of Law Emeritus, University of California, Davis. Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
For a Nonspeciesist Criminology: Animal Abuse as an Object of Study
This article considers a variety of arguments about why theory and research on animal abuse should be developed by criminologists. These include, with more or less satisfaction, the status of animal abuse as (1) a signifier of actual or potential interhuman conflict, (2) an existing object of criminal law, (3) an item in the utilitarian calculus on the avoidance of pain and suffering, (4) a violation of rights, and (5) one of several oppressions …
Rethinking Bestiality: Towards a Concept of Interspecies Sexual Assault
This paper seeks to introduce a view of bestiality which differs radically from both the anthropocentrism enshrined in the dogma of Judaeo-Christianity and also from the pseudo-liberal tolerance fashionable today. I argue that bestiality should be understood as `interspecies sexual assault' because the situation of animals as abused victims parallels that of women and, to some extent, that of infants and children and further because (1) human-ani…
Empiricism and the Critique of Marxism on Law and Crime
In this paper I take issue with the critical reaction that has recently sought to test the empirical adequacy of Marxist accounts of law and crime. I argue that this reaction has seriously misrepresented its own conceptual object by confusing it with concepts generated in theoretical structures less alien than Marxism, such as labeling theory and conflict theory. Because it uses “naive falsificationism” as its criterion of empirical adequacy, thi…
Adolphe Quetelet and the Origins of Positivist Criminology
This article examines the largely unacknowledged contribution of Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874) to the origins of positivist criminology. Quetelet's labors have previously tended to be misrepresented either as a political project that was an unmediated expression of state and class interests or as a discourse that anticipated the subsequent maturation of Lombrosianism and the Chicago school of ecology. It is suggested here, instead, that Quetelet's…
Inventing Criminology: "Essays on the Rise of "Homo Criminalis
Cultural relativism and comparative criminology
Criminology and Animal Studies: A Sociological View
Most readers of Society a Animals probably will notnknow that among the multi-disciplinary practitionersnof criminology there is longstanding and, at times,nquite heated disagreement about its proper objectsnof study. As a sociologist, I understand criminologynto be a discourse that investigates the whys, the hows,nand the whens of the generation and control of thenmany aspects of social harmmincluding abuse, exclusion,npain, injury, and
Horse Maiming in the English Countryside: Moral Panic, Human Deviance, and the Social Construction of Victimhood
The societal reaction to a series of horse assaults in rural Hampshire during the 1990s was a rare example of a moral panic about crime and deviance in which animals other than humans occupy, or seemed to occupy, the central role of victim. This paper explores how the nature of the relationships between humans and animals is revealed through authoritative utterances about offenders and victims by the mass media, the police, and the humans who fel…
Between Classicism and Positivism: Crime and Penality in the Writings of Gabriel Tarde
This study is a foray into a neglected but nevertheless important area in the intellectual history of the sociology of crime. Its focus is the writings of Gabriel Tarde (1843–1904), an elusive figure who was tremendously influential in his own time yet whose criminology was quickly lost in the even wider acclaim then accorded his contributions to political philosophy and social psychology. Three consistent lines of enquiry in Tarde's considerable…
Peter Singer's ``Heavy Petting'' and the Politics of Animal Sexual Assault
Law and The Constitution of Soviet Society: The Case of Comrade Lenin
In this paper we investigate a largely unrecognized but nevertheless important chapter in the legal and political history of Soviet Marxism: the simultaneously coherent and contradictory theoretical tendencies in Lenin's pronouncements about law, legality, and delegalization ("the withering away of law") during the socialist transition. We identify and discuss these tendencies as they unfold against the historical background of the Russian Revolu…
The Law is an Ass: Reading E.P. Evans' The Medieval Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals
In this essay I address a little-known chapter in the lengthy history of crimes against (nonhuman) animals. My focus is not crimes committed by humans against animals, as such, but a practical outcome of the seemingly bizarre belief that animals are capable of committing crimes against humans.2 I refer here to the medieval practice whereby animals were prosecuted and punished for their misdeeds, aspects of which readers are likely to have encount…
Wildlife Trade and Covid-19: Towards a Criminology of Anthropogenic Pathogen Spillover
The general remit of this paper is the role of wildlife trade in pathogen spillover. Its underlying assumption is that, so far from being the exclusive domain of the life sciences, the study of pathogen spillover will be greatly enhanced by multi-perspectival approaches, including One Health and those employed here, namely, non-speciesist green criminology and critical animal studies. The paper moves from discussions of zoonosis, anthroponosis an…
Revolution in Law: Contributions to the Development of Soviet Legal Theory, 1917-1938
Designed to meet the curriculum needs of students from grades 7-12, this five-volume encyclopedia explores the history and civilizations of the ancient world from prehistory to approximately 1000 CE. Organized alphabetically within geographical volumes on Africa, Europe, the Americas, Southwest Asia, and Asia and the Pacific, entries cover the social, political, scientific and technological, economic, and cultural events and developments that sha…
Animals, Women and Terms of Abuse: Towards a Cultural Etymology of Con(e)y, Cunny, Cunt and C*nt
Raw, roast or half-baked? Hogarth’s beef in Calais Gate
Scholars of human–animal studies, literary criticism and art history have paid considerable attention of late to how the visual representation of nonhuman animals has often and sometimes to great effect been used in the imagining of national identity. It is from the scrutinies of these several disciplines that the broad backcloth of this article is woven. Its focus is the neglected coupling of patriotism and carnism, instantiated here by its depl…
Heredity Versus Environment
In the history of criminology few texts have commanded such gargantuan esteem as Charles Goring's The English Convict (1913). This paper examines the influence on Goring's text of the British movements in statistics and eugenics, and in so doing reconsiders the merits of his critical engagement with Lombrosianism. It is suggested that Goring's labours must be considered a partial failure. In refuting certain aspects of the notion of “born crimina…
Some More on Empiricism in the Study of Law: A Reply to Jacobs
Ad hominem styles of discourse seldom accomplish anything beyond the reiteration of one's own theoretical presuppositions over and against those of one's opponents. Because my original argument was only tangentially concerned with David Jacobs ' contributions to the testing of con-flict theory, and this but illustratively and passim, my remarks here will accordingly be confined to the more general epistemological issues raised by his Comment. The…
Some More on Empiricism in the Study of Law: A Reply to Jacobs
Introduction to 'Juridical Socialism
Marxism and the Sociology of Law: Theory or Practice
Rent and Rent Legislation in England and Wales 1915-1946
Introduction to 'Juridical Socialism
Empiricism and the Critique of Marxism on Law and Crime
In this paper I take issue with the critical reaction that has recently sought to test the empirical adequacy of Marxist accounts of law and crime. I argue that this reaction has seriously misrepresented its own conceptual object by confusing it with concepts generated in theoretical structures less alien than Marxism, such as labeling theory and conflict theory. Because it uses “naive falsificationism” as its criterion of empirical adequacy, thi…
Pashukanis: Selected Writings on Marxism and Law
Some More on Empiricism in the Study of Law: A Reply to Jacobs
Ad hominem styles of discourse seldom accomplish anything beyond the reiteration of one's own theoretical presuppositions over and against those of one's opponents. Because my original argument was only tangentially concerned with David Jacobs ' contributions to the testing of con-flict theory, and this but illustratively and passim, my remarks here will accordingly be confined to the more general epistemological issues raised by his Comment. The…
Some More on Empiricism in the Study of Law: A Reply to Jacobs
Crime and Deviance: A Comparative Perspective
The whole series is undoubtedly an important one, and successive volumes will be of interest to practitioners and research workers.' -- Personality & Individual Differences, Vol 3, 1982
Marxism and Law
Cultural relativism and comparative criminology
Max Weber.Anthony Kronman
Nations Not Obsessed with Crime
Penal Strategies in a Welfare State
A note on quetelet and the development of criminological statistics
Between Classicism and Positivism: Crime and Penality in the Writings of Gabriel Tarde
This study is a foray into a neglected but nevertheless important area in the intellectual history of the sociology of crime. Its focus is the writings of Gabriel Tarde (1843–1904), an elusive figure who was tremendously influential in his own time yet whose criminology was quickly lost in the even wider acclaim then accorded his contributions to political philosophy and social psychology. Three consistent lines of enquiry in Tarde's considerable…
Adolphe Quetelet and the Origins of Positivist Criminology
This article examines the largely unacknowledged contribution of Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874) to the origins of positivist criminology. Quetelet's labors have previously tended to be misrepresented either as a political project that was an unmediated expression of state and class interests or as a discourse that anticipated the subsequent maturation of Lombrosianism and the Chicago school of ecology. It is suggested here, instead, that Quetelet's…
Heredity Versus Environment
In the history of criminology few texts have commanded such gargantuan esteem as Charles Goring's The English Convict (1913). This paper examines the influence on Goring's text of the British movements in statistics and eugenics, and in so doing reconsiders the merits of his critical engagement with Lombrosianism. It is suggested that Goring's labours must be considered a partial failure. In refuting certain aspects of the notion of “born crimina…
Law and The Constitution of Soviet Society: The Case of Comrade Lenin
In this paper we investigate a largely unrecognized but nevertheless important chapter in the legal and political history of Soviet Marxism: the simultaneously coherent and contradictory theoretical tendencies in Lenin's pronouncements about law, legality, and delegalization ("the withering away of law") during the socialist transition. We identify and discuss these tendencies as they unfold against the historical background of the Russian Revolu…
Selected Writings on Soviet Law and Marxism
Selected Writings on Soviet Law and Marxism
Journal Article P.I. Stuchka (ed.): Selected Writings on Soviet Law and Marxism Get access Selected Writings ON Soviet Law AND Marxism. By P.I. Stuchka. Edited, annotated, translated, and introduced by Robert Sharlet, Peter B. Maggs, and Piers BeirneArmonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1988. Pp. xxii, 251. Edgar Bodenheimer Edgar Bodenheimer *Professor of Law Emeritus, University of California, Davis. Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
Inventing Criminology: The “Science of Man” in Cesare Beccaria's Dei Delitti E Delle Pene (1764)
This paper challenges existing images of the context and object of Cesare Beccaria's (1764) Dei delitti e delle pene . It offers textual and other evidence that the chief object of Beccaria's famous treatise was the application to crime and penality not of humanism and legal rationality, as convention holds, but of the Scottish‐inspired “science of man.” This latter was a deterministic discourse whose key principles—utilitarianism, probabilism, a…
Revolution in Law: Contributions to the Development of Soviet Legal Theory, 1917-1938
Designed to meet the curriculum needs of students from grades 7-12, this five-volume encyclopedia explores the history and civilizations of the ancient world from prehistory to approximately 1000 CE. Organized alphabetically within geographical volumes on Africa, Europe, the Americas, Southwest Asia, and Asia and the Pacific, entries cover the social, political, scientific and technological, economic, and cultural events and developments that sha…
Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law, and Policy in England, 1830- 1914
Inventing Criminology: Essays on the Rise of Homo Criminalis
The Law is an Ass: Reading E.P. Evans' The Medieval Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals
In this essay I address a little-known chapter in the lengthy history of crimes against (nonhuman) animals. My focus is not crimes committed by humans against animals, as such, but a practical outcome of the seemingly bizarre belief that animals are capable of committing crimes against humans.2 I refer here to the medieval practice whereby animals were prosecuted and punished for their misdeeds, aspects of which readers are likely to have encount…
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