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Animal Cruelty: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding
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Product Description Animal Cruelty is an anthology that addresses all critical aspects of animal cruelty including: its history and prevalence; related legislation; special types of cruelty (hoarding, poaching, blood sports, etc.); its link to other types of violence and crime; theories used to explain animal cruelty; the role of the media; and emerging issues related to animal cruelty. The text is suitable for undergraduate and graduate classes in criminal justice, criminology, psychology, law, sociology, animal studies, and other disciplines, and is especially well-suited for use in classes on such topics as animal cruelty, animal welfare, deviant behavior, animal law, violent crime, veterinary studies, abnormal psychology, and animal husbandry. This second edition includes chapter updates related to legislation, prevalence and incidence of animal cruelty, and research findings, as well as the addition of two completely new chapters related to veterinary forensics and cruelty towards roaming dogs. Review Animal Cruelty is a welcome, timely, and truly comprehensive look at the history of animal cruelty in the United States, and our nation s multi-dimensional response to it, including attempts to define and understand it. --Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, from the Foreword This comprehensive volume gives the study of animal cruelty in all its many forms and from a variety of angles a much firmer footing to establish and assert that animal cruelty is a type of violence that requires responses from policymakers, researchers, and educators. --Animal Welfare Institute Quarterly …starts a crucial, groundbreaking, and illuminating conversation among seemingly disparate disciplines about animal cruelty and how to approach it. It would behoove anyone interested in ameliorating animal suffering to read this book.…This field is ripe for scholarly, political, legal, and cultural attention and legitimization. This book starts us on this trajectory. --Animal Law Committee Newsletter About the Author Mary P. Brewster, Ph.D. is a Professor of Criminal Justice and Graduate Program Coordinator at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Cassandra L. Reyes, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
