TY - BOOK ID - 149904647 TI - Understanding Animal Abuse : A Sociological Analysis PY - 2014 SN - 1590563409 PB - : Lantern Books, DB - UniCat KW - Animal welfare. KW - Animal welfare UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:149904647 AB - Until the last decade of the twentieth century, the abusive or cruel treatment of animals had received virtually no attention among academicians. Since then, however, empirical studies of animal abuse, and its relation to other forms of violence toward humans, have increased not only in number but in quality and stature. Sociologists, criminologists, social workers, psychologists, legal scholars, feminists, and others have recognized the myriad reasons that animal abuse is worthy of serious scholarly focus. In his overview of contemporary sociological understanding of animal abuse, Clifton Fly ER -