Animal Maltreatment: Forensic Mental Health Issues and Evaluations is the first book to provide an overview of animal maltreatment as a legal, clinical, and forensic mental health issue. It offers guidance for mental health professionals and lawyers in cases involving the adjudication of animal maltreatment offenses, with a special focus on forensic mental health assessments in such cases. Animal maltreatment includes physical or sexual abuse, neglect, or hoarding of animals. Almost one-half of all U.S. states have statutory provisions mandating or allowing courts to order forensic mental health assessments of individuals convicted of animal maltreatment offenses. However, there are few resources on this topic for mental health and legal professionals, and none that offer guidance for evaluations in animal maltreatment cases. This book introduces what the authors believe will become the newest subfield of forensic mental health assessment, Forensic Animal Maltreatment Evaluations (FAME). It begins with an examination of the legal and social contexts for the problem, followed by a review of clinical knowledge within the area.

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►Veterinary Forensic Medicine

• Lacey Levitt, ed. PhD, Licensed clinical psychologist, Forensic psychologist.
• Gary Patronek, ed. VMD, PhD, Veterinarian and epidemiologist, Independent consultant, Adjunct Faculty associate. Tufts University, Medford, MA (USA), School of Veterinary Medicine.
• Thomas Grisso, ed. PhD, ABPP (Forensic), Clinical psychologist, Professor emeritus. University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA (USA), Medical School.
  
   
• Publication date (print & electronic format): 2015-11.