TOP TEN (or so) LINKS ON THIS SITE

(You don't want to miss these!):

1. Animal Concerns - THE BEST SOURCE FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS INFORMATION!!

2. Animal Legal Defense Fund - they may be the only lawyers whose clients are all innocent

3. Why Vegan? - amazing booklet published by Vegan Outreach

4. HSUS's First Strike Program -super source re: the animal cruelty--human violence connection

5. Liberation Magazine - useful info like vegan ingredients lists, etc. ** A GREAT RESOURCE **

6. Animal Liberation Frontline Information Service - Animal Liberation Front (ALF) spokesgroup

7. Animal Rights Law - from Rutgers University's Animal Rights Law Center

8. Farm Sanctuary - helped get the first cruelty conviction of a stockyard!  We ♥ Farm Sanctuary!

9. Animal Rights Legal Foundation - an animal law supersite!!

10. Animals and Crime - from APBnews.com (GREAT source, but this page is frequently down)

11. Pet-Abuse.com - the largest abuse crime database on the Internet - VERY professional, important site

Welcome to AnimalCriminology.com!  

The purpose of this website is to provide information about the roles animals have played (and continue to play) in criminology and criminal justice.  All too often, we have either simply glossed over or--more likely--altogether ignored the roles of animals in these areas.  This is unfortunate, and the mission of this website is to help change that.

This ancient mosaic show animals--a lion and a second animal (unidentifiable due to damage to the mosaic)--being used as the executioners of a condemned man.  (Photo courtesy of Dr. Roger Dunkle, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.)

AnimalCriminology.com provides professional and aspiring criminologists with an extensive collection of links to websites relating to the roles of animals in crime and criminal justice, including that of the animal "offender." 

RIGHT: Tyke, an elephant was  shot to death by Honolulu police officers after killing her trainer and escaping from a circus.  It took almost 100 bullets to kill her. 

LEFT:  Members of  Direct Action for Animals link themselves together with three U-locks protesting the University of Minnesota's use of animals in experiments.  The six protesters were arrested for trespassing and disorderly conduct after University Police cut the locks.  (Photo by Sato) 

ABOVE RIGHT:  Gloria Stoga, founder and president of Puppies Behind Bars, with inmates involved in the program at the Fishkill Correctional Facility in Peekskill, NY.  (Photos by Melanie Stetson Freeman - Staff)

LEFT:  A cow awaits slaughter in the stockyard of Excel Corp. in Fort Morgan, Colo. In 1998, the plant was cited by USDA inspectors for violations including cutting and skinning live cows.  Almost all of the animal abuse that occurs in raising and killing animals for food is EXEMPT from state and federal animal cruelty laws.  (Photo, The Washington Post, Steve Groer)

LEFT:  An Animal Liberation Front raid on a research lab at the University of Minnesota.

RIGHT: The execution of the sow of Falaise (Normandy) in 1386.  The pig was tried in the town's tribunal and found guilty of committing human infanticide.  But, before her execution was carried out, the townspeople dressed her in man's clothing.  In medieval Europe, animals were frequently tried and executed for their "crimes" against people.  These trials were taken very seriously, and defense counsel for the accused animals was provided at public expense.