Piers Beirne, PhD

Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Legal Studies
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Education

  • Ph.D. in Sociology, Durham University
  • B.A. in Sociology, Essex University
Criminology College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Office of the Provost

I affirm the sovereignty of the Indigenous peoples of the Abenaki and the Wabanaki Confederacy―the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet and Mi’kmaq―on whose unceded land I live and work.

Academic Achievements

  • Fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Fellowships at Oxford University (criminology); The Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics; the National University of Ireland (sociology); and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (law)
  • Lifetime Achievement Award, the American Society of Criminology (Division on Critical Criminology)
  • Co-founder and editor of the international journalÌýTheoretical Criminology

Selected Publications

Articles

2023 Piers Beirne and 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.

2022 Piers Beirne, 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

2021 Ìý'Animals, Women and Terms of Abuse: Towards a Cultural Etymology ofÌýCon(e)y,ÌýCunny,ÌýCuntÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýC*nt’,ÌýCritical Criminology, 28(3): 327-349.Ìý

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2021 Ìý ‘Wildlife Trade and COVID-19: Towards a Criminology of Anthropogenic Pathogen Spillover’,ÌýBritish Journal of Criminology, 61(3): 607-626.ÌýÌý

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2018ÌýÌýÌý‘Raw, Roast or Half-Baked? Hogarth’s Beef inÌýCalais Gate’,ÌýTheoretical Criminology,Ìý22(3): 426-44.

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Books (see:Ìý)

2018ÌýMurdering Animals: Theriocide, Homicide and Nonspeciesist Criminology.Ìý London: Palgrave Macmillan. (With Ian O'Donnell and Janine Janssen)

2017ÌýPalgrave International Handbook on Animal Abuse Studies. London: Palgrave Macmillan, edited with Jennifer Maher and Harriet Pierpoint

2015ÌýHogarth's Art of Animal Cruelty: Satire, Suffering and Pictorial Propaganda. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

2015ÌýCriminology: A Sociological Approach. 6th edition. Oxford University Press. (with James Messerschmidt)

2009ÌýConfronting Animal Abuse: Law, Criminology and Human-Animal Relations.Ìý Rowman & Littlefield.

2007ÌýIssues in Green Criminology: Confronting Harms Against Environments, Humanity and Other Animals.Ìý Willan. (with Nigel South)

1993 Inventing Criminology: Essays on the Rise of `Homo Criminalis’. SUNY Press.

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Education

  • Ph.D. in Sociology, Durham University
  • B.A. in Sociology, Essex University