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  • 5 - Carceral Progressivism and Animal Victims

  • from Part I - Carceral Thinking in Animal Protection: Justifications and Repudiations
  • Edited by Lori Gruen, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, Justin Marceau
  • Book:
    Carceral Logics
    Published online:
    09 April 2022
    Print publication:
    14 April 2022, pp 87-100
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    This chapter places the criminalization of harm to non-human animals within a larger context of left and progressive efforts to use criminal law to address social problems. This chapter treats the animal welfare movement’s turn to criminal legal solutions as a case study of the broader phenomenon of “carceral progressivism.” Specifically, the chapter identifies this case study as reflecting two particularly common features of left or progressive criminalization projects: (1) the presence of a particularly vulnerable class of victims; and (2) the claim that criminal law can send a message about society’s respect for that class of victims and condemnation of harm done to them. Ultimately, the chapter argues that carceral progressivism – despite its ostensibly egalitarian or left commitments – risks reinscribing and legitimating the evils of the carceral state.