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Carceral logics permeate our thinking about humans and nonhumans. We imagine that greater punishment will reduce crime and make society safer. We hope that more convictions and policing for animal crimes will keep animals safe and elevate their social status. The dominant approach to human-animal relations is governed by an unjust imbalance of power that subordinates or ignores the interest nonhumans have in freedom. In Carceral Logics Lori Gruen and Justin Marceau invite experts to provide insights into the complicated intersection of issues that arise in thinking about animal law, violence, mass incarceration, and social change. Advocates for enhancing the legal status of animals could learn a great deal from the history and successes (and failures) of other social movements. Likewise, social change lawyers, as well as animal advocates, might learn lessons from each other about the interconnections of oppression as they work to achieve liberation for all.
Introduction / Lori Gruen and Justin Marceau
Part I. Carceral Thinking in Animal Protection: Justifications and Repudiations:
1. Saved: the historical roots of humane carceral logics in the United States / Paula Tarankow
2. Criminal animal abuse: interconnectedness, and human morality / Richard L. Cupp, Jr
3. Giving a voice to the voiceless: a prosecutor's efforts to combat animal cruelty / Ashley N. Beck
4. Examining anticruelty enhancements: historical context and policy advances / Pamela D. Frasch
5. Carceral progressivism and animal victims / Benjamin Levin
Part II. Animal Law in Context: The Limits of Carceral Strategies:
6. Spectacular immigration enforcement in hidden spaces aging and immigration enforcement / Jennifer M. Chacón
7. Against a 'war on animal cruelty': lessons from the war on drugs and mass incarceration / Sam Kamin
8. Criminalization as a solution to abuse: a cautionary tale / Tamara L. Kuennen
9. Humanizing animals, dehumanizing humans / Aya Gruber
10. Treating humans worse than animals? Exposing a false solitary confinement narrative / Delcianna Winders
11. Carceral logics beyond incarceration / Justin F. Marceau
Part III. Implications of Carceral Logics and Carceral Spaces for Animals and for Humans:
12. Incarcerating animals and egregious losses of freedoms / Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff
13. Juvenile smokescreens: softening the harm of zoos, aquaria and prisons through (human) children / Maneesha Deckha
14. Bovine lives and the making of a nineteenth-century American carceral archipelago / Karen M. Morin
15. Animals in prison: collateral damage and commodities / Kelly Struthers Montford
16. Political prisoners and the repression of animal liberation and intersectional environmental justice movements / David N.Pellow
Part IV. Challenging Captivity and Changing Carceral Thinking:
17. Cause lawyering for the caged: invisibility, moral suasion, and defranchisement in the prisoners' rights and animal protection movements / Alan K. Chen and Vikram David Amar
18. Litigating animal capitivy: habeas corpus in the carceral state / Jessica Eisen
19. 'True' imprisonment / Douglas A. Kysa
20. Imagining animal rights as a civil rights movement / Will Potter
21. Abolition: thinking beyond carceral logics / Lori Gruen
Lori Gruen is the William Griffin Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University. She is also the founder and coordinator of Wesleyan Animal Studies and the author or editor of over a dozen books, including Ethics and Animals: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2021), Critical Terms for Animal Studies (2018), and The Ethics of Captivity (2014).
Justin F. Marceau is a Professor of Law at the University of Denver, a Research Scholar at the Brooks Institute, and active animal protection and civil rights litigator. He is the author of Beyond Cages (Cambridge, 2019).
Contributors:
- Lori Gruen
- Justin Marceau
- Paula Tarankow
- Richard L. Cupp Jr
- Ashley N. Beck
- Pamela D. Frasch
- Benjamin Levin
- Jennifer M. Chacón
- Sam Kamin
- Tamara L. Kuennen
- Aya Gruber
- Delcianna Winders
- Justin F. Marceau
- Jessica Pierce
- Marc Bekoff
- Maneesha Deckha
- Karen Morin
- Kelly Struthers Montford
- David N. Pellow
- Vikram David Amar
- Alan K. Chen
- Jessica Eisen
- Douglas A. Kysa
- Will Potter
- Lori Gruen
"Carceral logics permeate our thinking about humans and nonhumans. We imagine that greater punishment will reduce crime and make society safer. We hope more convictions and policing for animal crimes will keep animals safe and elevate their social status. The dominant approach to human-animal relations is governed by an unjust imbalance of power that subordinates or ignores the interest nonhumans have in freedom. In this volume, Gruen and Marceau invited experts to provide insights into the complicated intersection of issues that arise in thinking about animal law, violence, mass incarceration, and social change. Carceral Logics is remarkable in how far it expands and deepens our understanding of the animal protection movement's carceral tendencies, the impulses that motivate them, and the alternatives before us. This book will undoubtedly not only shape research and debate, but help to inform the continued development of a more just and inclusive animal protection movement."
– Mercy For Animals
"Many of the most well-funded nonprofits in the animal protection movement have colluded with police, prosecutors, and for-profit animal torturing corporations to pursue mass human caging that has no discernable benefit to the animals they ostensibly seek to protect. With this brilliant, rigorous new volume, leading scholars and activists expose the intellectual dishonesty, ideological inconsistency, corruption, and lack of connection to other liberatory movements that have plagued the animal protection movement for too long. It is an essential call to change for all those who care about the value of human and nonhuman life."
– Alec Karakatsanis, founder of Civil Rights Corps, and author of Usual Cruelty
"What do we do when laws prohibiting animal cruelty fail to stop the vast majority of violence inflicted upon animals? Essential reading for anyone working to enact laws to protect animals, Carceral Logics insists that we measure our success and assess our failures by the real-world impacts such laws have on humans and nonhumans."
– Lauren Gazzola, SHAC 7 defendant
"Carceral Logics invites readers into the messiness of the ways we treat each other and nonhuman animals. The essays resist simple equations of the experiences of human incarceration with nonhuman animal abuse and confinement, while challenging the assumptions that undergird each. What is revealed? That carceral logics belong to us, and dismantling these logics requires more than reform – we need systemic reimagining."
– Reginald Dwayne Betts, founder of Freedom Reads, and author of Felon
