TY - CHAP
T1 - The Cow and the Plow
T2 - Animal Suffering, Human Guilt, and the Crime of Cruelty
AU - Pearson, Susan J.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Nineteenth-century animal protectionists endeavored to frame laws that gave animals direct legal protections, and they conducted large-scale public education campaigns to define the harm of cruelty to animals in terms of animals' own suffering. However, animal suffering was only one of the many possible definitions of cruelty's harms, and when judges and other legal interpreters interpreted animal protection laws, they focused less on animal suffering and more on human morality and the dangers of cruelty to human society. Battling over the definition of human guilt for cruelty, protectionists and judges drew and redrew the boundaries of the law's reach and the moral community.
AB - Nineteenth-century animal protectionists endeavored to frame laws that gave animals direct legal protections, and they conducted large-scale public education campaigns to define the harm of cruelty to animals in terms of animals' own suffering. However, animal suffering was only one of the many possible definitions of cruelty's harms, and when judges and other legal interpreters interpreted animal protection laws, they focused less on animal suffering and more on human morality and the dangers of cruelty to human society. Battling over the definition of human guilt for cruelty, protectionists and judges drew and redrew the boundaries of the law's reach and the moral community.
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U2 - 10.1016/S1059-4337(05)36005-4
DO - 10.1016/S1059-4337(05)36005-4
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:33645918971
SN - 0762311894
SN - 9780762311897
T3 - Studies in Law Politics and Society
SP - 77
EP - 101
BT - Studies in Law Politics and Society
A2 - Anderson, Matthew
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