I think animals do sense death. I have seen pets who after a long illness will display a behavior almost like a goodbye. Whether it was a good bye from the one dying or from a fellow companion pet, there was most certainly a distinct change of physical behavior.
Table of Contents. 1  Biographical Sketch. 2  Rawls's Mature Work: A Theory of Justice (1971) The Basic Structure of Society. Utilitarianism as the Principal Opponent. 3  Recasting the Argument for Stability: Political Liberalism (1993) 4  Problems of Extension. 5  References and Further Reading.
Most policy-making in criminal justice is based on criminological theory, whether the people making those policies know it or not. In fact, most of the failed policies (what doesn't work) in criminal justice are due to misinterpretation, partial implementation, or ignorance of criminological theory. Much time and money could be saved if only policymakers had a thorough understanding of criminological theory.