How to Fight Puppy Mills: Toughening the Sentences for Animal Abuse in the Post-Communist Region

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21630%2F20%3A00341929" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21630/20:00341929 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10061020" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10061020</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani10061020" target="_blank" >10.3390/ani10061020</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

How to Fight Puppy Mills: Toughening the Sentences for Animal Abuse in the Post-Communist Region

Original language description

This study seeks answers to questions regarding the kind of main legislative issues and obstacles there are in providing a legal solution to the problem of illegal puppy mills in the post-communist context, how criminal law experts opine about toughening the sentencing guidelines for animal abuse and deficient puppy mills, what kind of arguments have been formulated and how they have shaped the decision making by lawmakers, and how Czech politicians have argued in favour of or against toughening the sentencing guidelines for animal abuse. The Czech Republic was selected as a country of “flourishing” illegal breeding establishments and puppy exports to other European countries—a problem that has long required a solution. The introduction defines the concepts of animal abuse and puppy mills employed in the paper. Subsequently, the paper outlines existing laws as well as the amendments to toughen the sentencing guidelines. I use the example of debates among parliamentarians and legal experts on toughening the Czech Criminal Code and introducing longer prison terms to demonstrate some typical issues of the debates on tougher sentences for animal abuse in the post-communist region.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40201 - Animal and dairy science; (Animal biotechnology to be 4.4)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Animals

ISSN

2076-2615

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

1-18

UT code for WoS article

000552470600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85088229928