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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821501403321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2016

ISBN

0-19-027567-7

0-19-936091-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Disciplina

614/.15

Soggetti

Animal welfare - United States

Animal welfare - Law and legislation - United States

Forensic psychology - United States

Mentally ill offenders - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

'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.