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In this volume, Lori Gruen and Justin Marceau invite experts to examine connections between mass incarceration of humans and captive control of animals. Chapters explore how carceral responses to animal crime and carceral thinking about animal captivity can impact the lives and legal status of both humans and non-humans.
List of contents
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 of 'rehabilitation' 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.
About the author
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, Research Scholar at the Brooks Institute, and an active animal protection and civil rights litigator. He is the author of Beyond Cages (Cambridge, 2019).
Summary
In this volume, Lori Gruen and Justin Marceau invite experts to examine connections between mass incarceration of humans and captive control of animals. Chapters explore how carceral responses to animal crime and carceral thinking about animal captivity can impact the lives and legal status of both humans and non-humans.
Foreword
We incarcerate humans as a form of punishment and we cage animals for food, entertainment, and research. Are there lessons one site of carcerality can teach us about the other?
