Title Animal maltreatment : forensic mental health issues and evaluations / edited by Lacey Levitt, Gary Patronek, and Thomas Grisso

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 378 pages) Contents Animal maltreatment as a social problem / Gary Patronek -- Law and animal maltreatment / Sandra R. Sylvester and Alexander G. von Fricken -- Building a knowledge base for social and legal concerns about animal maltreatment / Thomas Grisso -- Understanding intentional animal maltreatment / Lacey Levitt -- The relation of animal maltreatment to general aggression / Emily Patterson-Kane -- Understanding animal neglect and hoarding / Gary Patronek and Jane Nathanson -- Understanding the effects of maltreatment on animal welfare / Lila Miller and Gary Patronek -- Social responses to animal maltreatment offenders : neglect and hoarding / Catherine Ayers, Mary Dozier, and Christiana Bratiotis -- Social responses to animal maltreatment offenders : cruelty and sexual abuse / Lisa Lunghofer -- Conceptualizing forensic animal maltreatment evaluations / Lacey Levitt and Thomas Grisso -- Methods for forensic animal maltreatment evaluations / Philip Tedeschi -- Practice and ethics in forensic animal maltreatment evaluations / Terry Kukor, Daniel Davis, and Kenneth Weiss Summary 'Animal Maltreatment' provides an overview of animal maltreatment as a legal, clinical, and forensic issue. It offers guidance for mental health and legal professionals involved in the adjudication of animal maltreatment offenses, with a special focus on forensic mental health assessments in such cases Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Animal welfare -- United States Animal welfare -- Law and legislation -- United States Forensic psychology -- United States Mentally ill offenders -- United States MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine. MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine. MEDICAL -- Public Health. Animal welfare Animal welfare -- Law and legislation Forensic psychology Mentally ill offenders United States Form Electronic book Author Levitt, Lacey, editor. Patronek, Gary, editor. Grisso, Thomas, editor. ISBN 9780199360918 019936091X

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