Labelling animals

Being humans, we do not live in a vacuum of the social realm or the cultural world, as if this territory is separated or neatly distinguishable from the biological terrain or the natural world. Humans’ lives are inextricably bound with those of other animals. Through a multitude of relationships with humans, other animals are interwoven in society, be it on occasions when their bodies are eaten by humans or, vice versa, when they are lovingly caressed as companions and taken in as part of the family; when they are hunted for trophies or exterminated as ‘pests’; when they are used as models in laboratory experimentations or even when humans stand in sheer awe and marvel at the splendour which the ‘animal kingdom’ offers us. However, social scientific inquiries – and in extension criminological investigations – have manifested a nearly total blind spot where these issues are concerned

Biology · Criminology · Labelling · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Identification and Quantification in Food · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses

• Parliamentary Debates Concerning the Living Conditions of Pigs in Sweden’s Factory Farms Between 1980–2018

  Open Access•Daniel Nilsson•Critical Criminology•2023

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