Animal maltreatment as a social problem / Gary Patronek -- Law and animal maltreatment / Sandra R. Sylvester and Alexander G. von Fricken -- Building a knowledge base for social and legal concerns about animal maltreatment / Thomas Grisso -- Understanding intentional animal maltreatment / Lacey Levitt -- The relation of animal maltreatment to general aggression / Emily Patterson-Kane -- Understanding animal neglect and hoarding / Gary Patronek and Jane Nathanson -- Understanding the effects of maltreatment on animal welfare / Lila Miller and Gary Patronek -- Social responses to animal maltreatment offenders : neglect and hoarding / Catherine Ayers, Mary Dozier, and Christiana Bratiotis -- Social responses to animal maltreatment offenders : cruelty and sexual abuse / Lisa Lunghofer -- Conceptualizing forensic animal maltreatment evaluations / Lacey Levitt and Thomas Grisso -- Methods for forensic animal maltreatment evaluations / Philip Tedeschi -- Practice and ethics in forensic animal maltreatment evaluations / Terry Kukor, Daniel Davis, and Kenneth Weiss.