Animal Maltreatment - Forensic Mental Health Issues and Evaluations (Hardcover)

Animal maltreatment includes physical or sexual abuse, neglect, or hoarding of animals, and all states have laws prohibiting various forms of animal maltreatment. About one-half have statutory provisions mandating or allowing courts to order forensic mental health assessments of individuals convicted of animal maltreatment offenses. Yet there are few resources on this topic for mental health and legal professionals and none that offer guidance for evaluations in animal maltreatment cases. 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. The book reviews the legal and social contexts of animal maltreatment and then describes research-based and clinical knowledge within the area. It offers perspectives on social and clinical responses in animal maltreatment cases and describes prospects for an area of forensic mental health assessment focused specifically on the forensic evaluation in cases of animal maltreatment. This is the first book that brings together descriptions of the characteristics of those who maltreat animals, factors associated with animal maltreatment behaviors, information about the impact on the animals themselves, and evaluations of offenders to assist courts in decisions about their rehabilitation. Animal Maltreatment will be of great benefit and interest to general and forensic psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers, as well as lawyers, legal scholars and students, veterinarians, humane law enforcement professionals, and others involved in animal welfare advocacy.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2015
Editors:	Lacey Levitt (Licensed Clinical Psychologist) • Gary Patronek (Veterinarian and Epidemiologist) • Thomas Grisso (Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry)
Dimensions:	241 x 171 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-936090-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Criminal or forensic psychology Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Books > Professional & Technical > Veterinary science > General Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > General
LSN:	0-19-936090-1
Barcode:	9780199360901

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