Animal maltreatment : forensic mental health issues and evaluations /

'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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Levitt, Lacey (Editor), Patronek, Gary (Editor), Grisso, Thomas (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Animal welfare > United States.
Animal welfare > Law and legislation > United States.
Forensic psychology > United States.
Mentally ill offenders > United States.
Psychologie légale > États-Unis.
Criminels vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > États-Unis.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Animal welfare
Animal welfare > Law and legislation
Forensic psychology
Mentally ill offenders
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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