{"product_id":"crime-and-fur-karmen-ita-9798187291663","title":"Crime and Fur: True Stories of Animals on Trial","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1457, a sow was tried, convicted, and executed for homicide in a French court. In 1474, a rooster was burned at the stake in Basel for the crime of laying an egg. In 1924, a dog was assigned a prisoner number and sentenced to life in a Pennsylvania penitentiary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are not legends. These are documented facts, preserved in court records, ecclesiastical archives, and notarial documents that have survived for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrime and Fur: \u003c\/i\u003eTrue Stories of Animals on Trial examines eighteen of the most extraordinary legal proceedings in history - cases in which animals were formally charged, tried, defended by lawyers, convicted, acquitted, exiled, and executed by the legal institutions of their time. From medieval France to colonial Brazil, from the Kingdom of Ayutthaya to the Sultanate of Oman, from a Puritan courtroom in Salem to a Franciscan convent in Recife - the cases span six centuries, three continents, and legal traditions as different from each other as the animals that stood before their courts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery case in this book is real. Every verdict was recorded. Every document exists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat drove human societies to put animals on trial? What does it reveal about the legal systems, the theological frameworks, and the collective psychology of the communities that produced these proceedings? And what do these cases - absurd, solemn, meticulously documented - tell us about the boundary between human justice and the natural world?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrime and Fur\u003c\/i\u003e is history at its most strange and most human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karmen Ita\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798187291663\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.97d","brand":"Karmen Ita","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997939970303,"sku":"9798187291663","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crime-and-fur-karmen-ita-9798187291663","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}