Animal Maltreatment : Forensic Mental Health Issues and Evaluations.

Cover -- Animal Maltreatment -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Foreword by Kirk Heilbrun -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Introduction -- SECTION I Social and Legal Context for Animal Maltreatment -- 1 Animal Maltreatment as a Social Problem -- 2 Law and Animal Maltreatment -- 3 Building a Knowledge Base for Legal and Social Concerns about Animal Maltreatment -- SECTION II Theory and Research on Animal Maltreatment -- 4 Understanding Animal Cruelty and Sexual Abuse -- 5 The Relation of Animal Maltreatment to Aggression -- 6 Understanding Animal Neglect and Hoarding -- SECTION III Responding to Animal Maltreatment -- 7 Understanding the Effects of Maltreatment on Animal Welfare -- 8 Social Responses to Animal Maltreatment Offenders: Neglect and Hoarding -- 9 Social Responses to Animal Maltreatment Offenders: Cruelty and Sexual Abuse -- SECTION IV Forensic Evaluations in Animal Maltreatment Cases -- 10 Conceptualizing Forensic Animal Maltreatment Evaluations -- 11 Methods for Forensic Animal Maltreatment Evaluations -- 12 Practice and Ethics in Forensic Animal Maltreatment Evaluations -- Index.

Animal Maltreatment is the first book to provide 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.