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Animals as crime victims / Edited by Lacey Levitt, (Ph.D., California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation), David B. Rosengard, (J.D., LL.M., Animal Legal Defense Fund, California) and Jessica Rubin, (J.D., University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.).
Levitt, Lacey editor.; Rosengard, David B. editor.; Rubin, Jessica editor.; Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.
2024
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Animals as crime victims / Edited by Lacey Levitt, (Ph.D., California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation), David B. Rosengard, (J.D., LL.M., Animal Legal Defense Fund, California) and Jessica Rubin, (J.D., University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.).
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"This innovative and prescient book offers a multidisciplinary framework which reconceptualizes maltreated animals as crime victims. Articulating more active and involved responses to animal maltreatment, Animals as Crime Victims provides guidance to attorneys, law enforcement personnel, veterinarians, and educators by reimagining how animals are positioned within the law. Lacey Levitt, David B. Rosengard, and Jessica Rubin bring together expert contributors from various fields who argue for reconceptualizing animals as crime victims and examine the legal ramifications of doing so. Chapters explore how recognition as crime victims not only makes animals and their own interests visible within the law but affords them substantive rights. Alongside a proposed legal framework, this incisive book details modern scientific discoveries regarding the complexity of animals' cognition and emotions and the historical and contemporary sociological shifts in our relationships with animals. Animals as Crime Victims will be a vital read for academics, students, and practitioners whose work focuses on animal maltreatment, animal law, or human-animal studies. Including in-depth examples, practical information, and exploration of substantive law alongside legal theory, this book will be useful to lawyers, law enforcement personnel, criminologists, and veterinary and mental health professionals confronting crimes against animals or the humans committing them"-- Provided by publisher.
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Contents: Foreword.Douglas E. Beloof, J.D.
Introduction to animals as crime victims: The importance of framing animals within criminal law and systems / Lacey Levitt, David Rosengard, Jessica Rubin
Part I: An Introduction to animal maltreatment, the law, and crime victims' rights
1. Defining animal maltreatment: Historical and contemporary perspectives / Kathie L. Jenni
2. The legal history of animal protection in the United States / David S. Favre
3. The (human) victims' rights movement in twenty-first century United States / Margaret Garvin
Part II: Arguments underlying the reclassification of animals as crime victims
4. Advances in understanding cognition in animals / Lesley J. Rogers and Gisela Kaplan
5. The evolving role of animals in contemporary society / Lacey Levitt
6. The relationship between animal maltreatment and interpersonal violence / Brian J. Holoyda
7. Proposing a nonhuman animal victimology / Melanie Flynn
Part III: Legal issues in the reconceptualization of animals as crime victims
8. Applying crime victims' rights to victims of animal maltreatment / David Rosengard
9. Insights from the nation's first jurisdiction to statutorily permit court-appointed attorneys for justice in animal cruelty cases / Jessica Rubin
10. Responding to animal cruelty and neglect in court: A prosecutor's journey / Jake Kamins
11. Assigning animals crime victim status: Opposing views and responses / Lora Dunn, Will Lowrey, Sherry Ramsey, David Rosengard, Lacey Levitt and Jessica Rubin
Part IV: Reconceptualizing animals as crime victims: Policy and practice
12. Mental health professionals recognizing animals as victims / Mary Lou Randour
13. Preparing law enforcement to respond to animal victims / Virginia M. Maxwell and Cassandra L. Reyes
14. Preparing veterinarians to respond to animal victims: Identifying and documenting physical harm / Martha Smith-Blackmore and Sheila Segurson
15. Preparing veterinarians to respond to animal victims: Understanding and treating the behavioral consequences of maltreatment / Sheila Segurson and Martha Smith-Blackmore
16. Could "victimhood" be preventable? Opportunities in large-scale neglect / Gary Patronek.

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