Coauthors Melinda Merck, D.V.M., and Randall Lockwood, Ph.D., will present a day-long certificate course, "Animal CSI: Using Veterinary Forensics to Make an Animal Cruelty Case," at Animal Care Expo, May 14-17, 2008, Disney's Coronado Springs Resort, Walt Disney World® Resort, Florida.
FORENSIC INVESTIGATION OF ANIMAL CRUELTY won the Dog Writers Association of America's “Best General Reference Book: 2006" category and was named “Dogwise Best Book of 2006."
ISBN 0-9748400-6-8
268 pages
22 color plates
7” x 10”, softcover
Publication date: August 31, 2006
This authorative book provides essential information and techniques that will help veterinarians to navigate the unfamiliar territory of forensic investigation...a major advance in the veterinary literature in this area.
—Alice Crook, BSc, DVM
The Canadian Veterinary Journal
This "how to do it bible"—a first of its kind reference—is one of the most useful weapons and tools that those who care for animals can own.
—Sherry Carpenter
The Daily Item
This book should help break down some of the training, practice management, and liability barriers that have precluded many veterinarians from being more proactive in the fight against animal abuse and neglect....The authors have made a major contribution to humane work and the prevention of all forms of family violence.
—Phil Arkow
The Latham Letter
Cruelty investigators and shelter veterinarians who take their jobs seriously will read Forensic Investigation of Animal Cruelty cover to cover, then wear it to tatters re-reading and referencing it....the information within it can save the cover cost many times over....
-Merritt Clifton
Animal People
A comprehensive introduction to the emerging field of veterinary forensic investigation...an invaluable resource for animal shelters and investigative and law enforcement professionals.
—The Forensic Examiner
Leslie Sinclair, D.V.M., is a principle with Shelter Veterinary Services in Columbia, Maryland. She is the former director, Companion Animal Veterinary Issues, for The Humane Society of the United States and previously served as chief veterinarian for the Houston (Texas) SPCA. She is a graduate of the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine.
Melinda Merck, D.V.M., is forensic veterinarian for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in New York City and the veterinary forensic consultant for the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of Veterinary Forensics: Animal Cruelty Investigations (Blackwell Publishing).
Randall Lockwood, Ph.D., is senior vice president for anti-cruelty initiatives and training for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in New York City. He is the former vice president, Research and Educational Outreach, for The Humane Society of the United States. He moderated a track on veterinary forensics at the 2005 Western Veterinary Conference. He is the co-editor (with Frank Ascione) of Cruelty to Animals and Interpersonal Violence (Purdue University Press). He lives in suburban Virginia.
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