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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惩罚支持：将动物控制执法与人类社会正义运动相结合的需要

由于内在的和系统性的偏见，美国的动物控制政策在低收入社区和有色社区中得到了过度执行，导致这些社区中宠物的健康状况恶化。较高的没收率，放弃率和安乐死率，较低的主人回报率以及在动物收容所中的居留时间延长证明了这些结果。人道社区框架实施了“一种健康和一种福利”的概念，以全面解决个人和结构层面的不平等问题，以改善动物控制政策和成果。以人为本和具有文化背景的政策和计划，将资源集中在解决宠物健康和福利问题的根本原因上，而不是强调执行代码，可以创建更积极，可扩展，以及人类，其他动物和环境健康与福利成果的可持续改善。从以惩罚为导向的方法转变为以支持为基础的动物控制模型，使动物福利领域与现代人类社会正义运动保持一致。