Piers Beirne

Works Beirne's chief work includes the book Murdering Animals: Writings On Theriocide, Homicide, And Nonspeciesist Criminology with Ian O'Donnell and Janine Janssen, published in 2018 in London by Palgrave Macmillan. In his book, Beirne uses the term "theriocide" to refer to the diverse human actions that cause the deaths of animals other than humans, ranging from one-on-one killings to that which happen in small groups or in invisibilised social institutions such as factory farms and research laboratories. Books Inventing Criminology: Essays on the Rise of `Homo Criminalis’, New York: SUNY Press (1993). Issues in Green Criminology: Confronting Harms Against Environments, Humanity and Other Animals, Willan (with Nigel South) (2007). Confronting Animal Abuse: Law, Criminology and Human-Animal Relations, Rowman & Littlefield (2009). Hogarth's Art of Animal Cruelty: Satire, Suffering and Pictorial Propaganda, London: Palgrave Macmillan (2015). Criminology: A Sociological Approach (6th edition), Oxford University Press (with James Messerschmidt) (2015). Palgrave International Handbook on Animal Abuse Studies, London: Palgrave Macmillan, edited with Jennifer Maher and Harriet Pierpoint (2017).

Articles With Michael J. Lynch, 'On the Geometry of Speciesist Policing: The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Animal Cruelty Data', International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 12(2): 137-149. doi: 10.5204/ijcjsd.2631 (2023). 'COVID-19 as an anthroponosis: Toward a nonspeciesist criminology of human-to-animal pathogen transmission’, International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 11(3): 139-152. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.2093 (2022). 'Animals, Women and Terms of Abuse: Towards a Cultural Etymology of Con(e)y, Cunny, Cunt and C*nt’, Critical Criminology, 28(3): 327-349. DOI: 10.1007/s10612-019-09460-w (2021). ‘Wildlife Trade and COVID-19: Towards a Criminology of Anthropogenic Pathogen Spillover’, British Journal of Criminology, 61(3): 607-626. DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azaa084 (2021). ‘Raw, Roast or Half-Baked? Hogarth’s Beef in Calais Gate’, Theoretical Criminology, 22(3): 426-44. DOI: 10.1177/1362480618787174 (2018).