Legislative Proposal to Increase Sentencing Powers for Cruelty to Nonhuman Animals: Taken with a Pinch of Salt

Environment Secretary for the British Government Michael Gove has announced his plan to increase the current maximum sentence that can be awarded to animal abuse offenders from six months to five years. In this critical analysis of the proposal, I will firstly outline the legislative proposal in ter...

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Autor principal:	Oliver A. Wookey
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Publicado:	Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Facultat de Dret 2018
Materias:	Animal welfare animal sentience companion animals anti-speciesism maximum sentence the League Against Cruel Sports Animal culture SF1-1100 Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence K1-7720
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:8a3bb052db7f4f92b06eb825cca4db3a2021-11-27T08:45:55ZLegislative Proposal to Increase Sentencing Powers for Cruelty to Nonhuman Animals: Taken with a Pinch of Salt10.5565/rev/da.2492462-7518https://doaj.org/article/8a3bb052db7f4f92b06eb825cca4db3a2018-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/da/article/view/249https://doaj.org/toc/2462-7518Environment Secretary for the British Government Michael Gove has announced his plan to increase the current maximum sentence that can be awarded to animal abuse offenders from six months to five years. In this critical analysis of the proposal, I will firstly outline the legislative proposal in terms of its aims, and then follow by providing statistics and referring to the most abhorrent cases of cruelty to demonstrate unequivocally the need for the proposal to be implemented. Following this, I will set out the positions of two major relevant stakeholders in response to the proposal: the League Against Cruel Sports, and the RSPCA. I will then proceed to commend the proposal as an important step forward for nonhuman animal welfare, especially given the increasing acknowledgement of the link between violence toward humans and toward nonhuman animals. I will then turn, however, to the two issues that I identify with the proposal and the context within which it has been introduced; firstly, that it highlights our pretension for protecting the welfare of companion animals while simultaneously contributing to the suffering of other animals that are also sentient beings; secondly, that recent Conservative party policies concerning nonhuman animals have been inimical to their welfare and, for this reason, the proposal must be taken with a pinch of salt.Oliver A. WookeyUniversitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Facultat de DretarticleAnimal welfareanimal sentiencecompanion animalsanti-speciesismmaximum sentencethe League Against Cruel SportsAnimal cultureSF1-1100Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. JurisprudenceK1-7720ENESDerecho Animal, Vol 9, Iss 1 (2018)
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spellingShingle	Animal welfare animal sentience companion animals anti-speciesism maximum sentence the League Against Cruel Sports Animal culture SF1-1100 Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence K1-7720 Oliver A. Wookey Legislative Proposal to Increase Sentencing Powers for Cruelty to Nonhuman Animals: Taken with a Pinch of Salt
description	Environment Secretary for the British Government Michael Gove has announced his plan to increase the current maximum sentence that can be awarded to animal abuse offenders from six months to five years. In this critical analysis of the proposal, I will firstly outline the legislative proposal in terms of its aims, and then follow by providing statistics and referring to the most abhorrent cases of cruelty to demonstrate unequivocally the need for the proposal to be implemented. Following this, I will set out the positions of two major relevant stakeholders in response to the proposal: the League Against Cruel Sports, and the RSPCA. I will then proceed to commend the proposal as an important step forward for nonhuman animal welfare, especially given the increasing acknowledgement of the link between violence toward humans and toward nonhuman animals. I will then turn, however, to the two issues that I identify with the proposal and the context within which it has been introduced; firstly, that it highlights our pretension for protecting the welfare of companion animals while simultaneously contributing to the suffering of other animals that are also sentient beings; secondly, that recent Conservative party policies concerning nonhuman animals have been inimical to their welfare and, for this reason, the proposal must be taken with a pinch of salt.
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title	Legislative Proposal to Increase Sentencing Powers for Cruelty to Nonhuman Animals: Taken with a Pinch of Salt
title_short	Legislative Proposal to Increase Sentencing Powers for Cruelty to Nonhuman Animals: Taken with a Pinch of Salt
title_full	Legislative Proposal to Increase Sentencing Powers for Cruelty to Nonhuman Animals: Taken with a Pinch of Salt
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Legislative Proposal to Increase Sentencing Powers for Cruelty to Nonhuman Animals: Taken with a Pinch of Salt

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