Legal Criticism of The Conceptualization of The Legal Good Protected Against the Crime of Animal Abuse in Peru

Abstract

Animal abuse is understood as non-accidental and socially unacceptable human behavior that causes pain, suffering or distress and/or death to an animal. This article aims to determine the conceptualization of the legal good protected against the crime of animal abuse when they are improperly exploited or treated with extreme cruelty; in the face of the impact on biodiversity and the ecosystem, typified in the Peruvian criminal system within property crimes, which leads to the interest of the owner being protected and not the life of the animal, producing legal-criminal conflicts in the sense that a difficulty is created to punish the crime.  The method used is a topic review, exploratory in scope, with a thematic analysis design. From the results it has been corroborated that the annual number of animal abuse in the world amounts to 115 million, only to use them for cosmetic and scientific purposes; Japan, the United Kingdom, China, Canada and the United States are the countries that together carry out this practice in a percentage greater than 55% of the 115 million. It is concluded that Peruvian Law No. 30407 classifies animal abuse as a crime, in article 206-A of the Penal Code, producing doctrinal discussions referring to the protected legal good, causing insufficient guarantees to protect the animal life that society and society Actually, it demands it.