Rethinking Bestiality: Towards a Concept of Interspecies Sexual Assault

Theoretical Criminology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 317-340

  Beirne, Piers ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

animal abuse; anthropocentrism; bestiality; interspecies sexual assault; sexual coercion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000821207     PISSN: 13624806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362480697001003003     Document Type: Article

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