1 FOREWORD 2 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 3 Part I: ANIMAL CRUELTY: THE CURRENT STATE Current State of Knowledge 4 Chapter 1: Animal Cruelty Encapsulated 5 Chapter 2: A Review of the Related Literature 6 Chapter 3: Three Theories of Offenders 7 PART II: ANIMAL CRUELTY AND SUBSEQUENT HUMAN VIOLENCE: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION 8 Chapter 4: Method and Study Design 9 Chapter 5: Findings 10 PART III: UNDERSTANDING THOSE WHO HURT ANIMALS: IN-DEPTH PORTRAITS 11 Chapter 6: Case Studies of Three Theories of Violent Offenders 12 Chapter 7: Non-Violent Offenders Investigated 13 PART IV: A BLUEPRINT TO END SENSELESS PAIN AND DESTRUCTION 14 Chapter 8: Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations 15 AFTERWORD 16 References 17 Index 18 About the Authors
Linda Merz-Perez is the former executive director of the Humane Society of Shelby County, Alabama. She currently serves on the boards of Hand-In-Paw and the SPCA, West Pasco; has served as court-appointed Animal Cruelty Investigative Officer; and has been involved in the field of animal welfare for the last 14 years. Kathleen M. Heide is professor of criminology at the University of South Florida, Tampa, and a licensed mental health counselor. She is an internationally recognized consultant on adolescent homicide, family violence, personality assessment, and juvenile justice, and the author of Why Kids Kill Parents: Child Abuse and Adolescent Homicide (1992) and Young Killers: The Challenge of Juvenile Homicide (1999).
"Merz-Perez and Heide have given us new and stronger reasons to take animal abuse very seriously." - Randall Lockwood, Ph.D., The Humane Society of the United States, from the Foreword; "The book will no doubt become a classic reference in this field." - Frank R. Ascione, Ph.D., Utah State University, from the Afterword"
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