Punishment to Support: The Need to Align Animal Control Enforcement with the Human Social Justice Movement
Due to inherent and systemic biases, animal control policies in the US are over-enforced in low-income communities and communities of color, resulting in worse health outcomes for the pets in these communities. These outcomes are exemplified by higher confiscation, relinquishment, and euthanasia rat...
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| description | Due to inherent and systemic biases, animal control policies in the US are over-enforced in low-income communities and communities of color, resulting in worse health outcomes for the pets in these communities. These outcomes are exemplified by higher confiscation, relinquishment, and euthanasia rates, lower return to owner rates, and extended lengths of stay in animal shelters. The Humane Communities framework operationalizes One Health and One Welfare concepts to comprehensively address issues of inequity at both the individual and structural levels to improve animal control policy and outcomes. Person-centered and culturally competent policies and programs that focus resources on addressing root causes of pet health and welfare issues as opposed to an emphasis on code enforcement can create more positive, scalable, and sustainable improvements in human, other animal, and environmental health and welfare outcomes. This shift from punishment-oriented approaches to support-based models of animal control aligns the animal welfare field with the modern human social justice movement. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9f6c1b4e926749148b38cf49967c0dfa2023-11-20T17:27:04ZengMDPI AGAnimals2076-26152020-10-011010190210.3390/ani10101902Punishment to Support: The Need to Align Animal Control Enforcement with the Human Social Justice MovementSloane M. Hawes0Tess Hupe1Kevin N. Morris2Institute for Human-Animal Connection, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USAInstitute for Human-Animal Connection, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USAInstitute for Human-Animal Connection, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USADue to inherent and systemic biases, animal control policies in the US are over-enforced in low-income communities and communities of color, resulting in worse health outcomes for the pets in these communities. These outcomes are exemplified by higher confiscation, relinquishment, and euthanasia rates, lower return to owner rates, and extended lengths of stay in animal shelters. The Humane Communities framework operationalizes One Health and One Welfare concepts to comprehensively address issues of inequity at both the individual and structural levels to improve animal control policy and outcomes. Person-centered and culturally competent policies and programs that focus resources on addressing root causes of pet health and welfare issues as opposed to an emphasis on code enforcement can create more positive, scalable, and sustainable improvements in human, other animal, and environmental health and welfare outcomes. This shift from punishment-oriented approaches to support-based models of animal control aligns the animal welfare field with the modern human social justice movement.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/10/10/1902animal controlpolicyone healthone welfarehumane communitiessocial justice |
| spellingShingle | Sloane M. Hawes Tess Hupe Kevin N. Morris Punishment to Support: The Need to Align Animal Control Enforcement with the Human Social Justice Movement Animals animal control policy one health one welfare humane communities social justice |
| title | Punishment to Support: The Need to Align Animal Control Enforcement with the Human Social Justice Movement |
| title_full | Punishment to Support: The Need to Align Animal Control Enforcement with the Human Social Justice Movement |
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| title_short | Punishment to Support: The Need to Align Animal Control Enforcement with the Human Social Justice Movement |
| title_sort | punishment to support the need to align animal control enforcement with the human social justice movement |
| topic | animal control policy one health one welfare humane communities social justice |
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