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Forensic Investigation of Animal Cruelty: A Guide for Veterinary and Law Enforcement Professionals
By Leslie Sinclair, DVM, Melinda Merck, DVM and Randall Lockwood, Ph.D.
Veterinarians have a key role to play in recognizing and addressing animal abuse. Forensic Investigation of Animal Cruelty provides essential information and techniques that will help veterinarians effectively respond when animal cruelty is suspected. A comprehensive introduction to veterinary forensic investigation, this book is required reading for animal shelter, veterinary, investigative and law enforcement professionals.
Topics covered include legal and legislative definitions of cruelty to animals; the veterinarian as an investigator of cruelty to animals and as an expert witness in animal cruelty cases; collecting, preserving and presenting the findings of a veterinary forensic investigation; examining the crime scene, and examining surviving and deceased victims. Also included are step-by-step analyses of thermal injuries, blunt-force trauma, sharp-force and projectile injuries, asphyxia, drowning, poisoning and other causes of death and injury.
Softcover, 7" x 10", 268 pages, 22 color plates.
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