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10 J Maher et al Part VI addresses other state-sanctioned harms to animals It focuses on the structural violence implicit in our use of animals—especially dogs and horses—in war and in criminal justice enforcement The use of animals by the military and police, although well established, is seldom opened up for scrutiny Centuries of untold exploitation, suffering and mass execution are hidden behind the caring, symbiotic relationship of human handler and animal Similarly, alongside the veneer of management and care commonplace in the conservation narrative, is the wide-scale and accepted destruction of animals who are deemed invasive alien species or insignificant species Like the others, these chapters call attention to the inconsistencies and paradoxes in our treatment of animals Part VII—a concluding chapter—examines a range of interventions available for responding to animal abuse offenders It sets out some possibilities for resolving the pervasive difficulties of responding to animal abusers that are identified in other chapters In doing so, the chapter stresses that while many promising programmes exist which can be used to intervene with specific types of offenders, there is a need for extensive evaluation of their impact and effectiveness Considerable work is still required in order to respond appropriately and effectively to all types of animal abusers A chronological guess: this hard work will take two generations of extending humane education towards compassion and empathy A Note on Language and Production In recognition of the natural variation in the use of language, the debates surrounding the harms perpetuated by anthropocentric and speciesist discourse and to facilitate effective communication, we have not imposed a common approach to language on authors and the result has been the use of a broad range of terms to refer to ‘animal’ (that is, non-human, other than human, more than human), ‘pet’ (for example, companion) and ‘abuse’ (for example, cruelty, harm), and so on Inevitably, the acceptability and understanding of the terms used vary geographically, for example, when discussing the use of animals in scientific research ‘vivisection’ is commonly used in the US and also occasionally in the UK, while the term ‘experimentation’ is more common in Australian literature As editors, we three—Jen, Harriet and Piers—had hoped to be able to state definitively that ‘no animals—none—were used and abused in the