About the Contributors

Seda Akdemir Ekizoglu, Ph.D., is a psychological counsellor in the Ministry of National Education in Turkey. She recently received her Ph.D. from Istanbul University. Her research focuses on interactions between animals and humans, attitudes toward sexual minorities, professional attitudes toward various forms of child abuse in general, and female-perpetrated sexual abuse in particular. She is interested in developing prevention and intervention programs designed to overcome violence.

Laurent Bègue, Ph.D., is full professor of social psychology at University Grenoble Alpes, France, member of the University Institute of France (IUF), and was visiting professor in Brock University (Ontario, Canada) and Stanford University (California, USA). He published more than 100 chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles, in journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Personality, and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. He also authored The Psychology of Good and Evil (2016, Oxford University Press). He mainly works in individual, social, and contextual determinants of aggressive and coercive behavior toward humans or nonhuman animals.

Marsha Chun is an Investigation Officer at the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Hong Kong) and a Research Assistant at The University of Hong Kong. She gives advice and provides training to the Hong Kong Police on animal cruelty investigations, and conducts research on prosecution and sentencing trends for animal cruelty.

Nienke Endenburg, Ph.D., clinical psychologist, is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University. She is the coordinator of the Veterinary Forensic Expert Centre. She is doing research and teaches on the topic of One Welfare. As such, she focuses on animal abuse and domestic violence, and tries to get different professions involved in this area to work together.

Alan R. Felthous, M.D., is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Saint Louis University and Southern Illinois University and past Marie B. Gale Centennial Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas. He is Senior Editor of Behavioral Sciences and the Law and coeditor with Henning Saß, M.D., of The Wiley International Handbook on Psychopathic Disorders and the Law, now in its second edition. His scholarly and teaching interests include clinical aggression, the psychopathology of criminal behavior, legal requirements of clinicians in managing potentially violent patients, and jail and prison suicide. Dr. Felthous's research and reviews of animal maltreatment span nearly half a century and include research on mental inpatients, military service members, county jail, state and federal prison inmates, and pretrial criminal defendants.

Nadine Harding, M.Sc., M.A., PGCert., FHEA, is the academic course lead for professional policing at The University of Gloucestershire, UK. For 17 years, Nadine served as a detective in the police in England, leading teams working in multiagency safeguarding and criminal investigation of abuse of children and adults. Her research focuses on systemic problems in criminal justice responses to victims of abuse and the policing of wildlife crime with a focus on improving partnerships with stakeholders, and using evidence to influence policy and practice. She is interested in promoting and improving sustainability in frontline services.

Marissa A. Hirsch, M.D., is a resident in psychiatry, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, having graduated with a B.S. in neuroscience at the University of Michigan and obtained her M.D. at St. George University School of Medicine. She has authored scientific articles and presented at scientific meetings on a variety of topics in psychiatry. Dr. Hirsch authored the book The Key to Success in School and Life-The Word Pyramid, a guide to assist high school and college students expand their vocabulary and improve their writing skills. Dr. Hirsch has long been interested in human-animal relationships.

Shuping Ho was the Research and Development Officer for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Hong Kong) and a Senior Research Assistant at The University of Hong Kong. Her areas of research include animal management policy, animal cruelty, and wildlife trafficking. She is a past member of the Hong Kong Agriculture Fisheries and Conservation Department's Animal Welfare Advisory Group.

Brian Holoyda, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., is Chief Psychiatrist for Contra Costa County Detention Health Services and a forensic psychiatrist. He oversees psychiatric services administered to pre-trial detainees in Contra Costa County, California, and cares for patients at the Martinez Detention Facility. He has a private forensic practice and specializes in the evaluation of violence risk assessment and sexual offenders. His academic interests include paraphilic disorders, human-animal interactions, group beliefs, and psychedelic pharmacotherapy.

Lacey Levitt, Ph.D., is a clinical forensic psychologist employed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. She has authored scholarly articles on various forensic populations. She was the co-editor of Animal Maltreatment: Forensic Mental Health Issues and Evaluations that was published by Oxford University Press in 2016 and co-editor of the forthcoming Animals as Crime Victims that is scheduled for publication in 2024.

Jennifer A. Maher, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of South Wales, who specializes in environmental crime, human-animal studies, and interpersonal youth violence and victimization. She has published widely on the illegal pet trades, wildlife crime, and animal abuse, by attracting funding for her research from the UNODC, European Commission, European Parliament, Scottish and U.K. governments, South Wales Police, and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA). Her expertise is sought nationally and internationally, including recently consulting on the UN ICCWC Toolkit review of the U.K. response to wildlife and forest crime.

Michelle Newberry, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Criminology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton, UK. Prior to working in academia, she worked with offenders in prisons and psychiatric hospitals. Her research focuses on motivations for offending behavior and personality characteristics associated with criminality. She is particularly interested in violent offending, including murder, domestic violence, animal cruelty, and violent wildlife crime offences.

Angus Nurse, Ph.D., is Head of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Nottingham Trent University. He was previously Associate Professor, Environmental Justice at Middlesex University. Nurse has research interests in green criminology, criminality, critical criminal justice, animal rights, and human rights law. He is a member of the Wild Animal Welfare Committee (WAWC) and has previously worked in the environmental NGO field and as an Investigator for the Local Government Ombudsman. His books include Policing Wildlife (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Animal Harm: Perspectives on Why People Harm and Kill Animals (Ashgate, 2013), The Citizen and the State (Emerald, 2020), and Wildlife Criminology (Bristol University Press, 2020, co-authored with Professor Tanya Wyatt).

Elizabeth B. Perkins, Ph.D., is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminology at Morehead State University in Kentucky, USA. Her research interests include policing, compassion fatigue, animal-human relations, terrorism, substance abuse, criminal justice organizations, and qualitative research methods.

Suzanne E. Tallichet, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology and Graduate Program Coordinator in the Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminology at Morehead State University in Kentucky, USA. Her research interests include the human-animal bond, animal cruelty and the link with interpersonal human violence, compassion fatigue among shelter workers and human-wildlife encounters.

Anton van Wijk, Ph.D., is a criminologist/psychologist and director of Verinorm, a research institute in The Netherlands specialized in social safety, crime and integrity. He has published on animal abusers and is a co-founder of the Dutch Expertise Center for Animal Abuse.

Kevin Vezirian is a Ph.D. candidate at University Grenoble Alpes, France. His research area is seated in the study of intergroup relations, and more especially, in the study of Human-Animal relations. Through his research, Vezirian aims to understand what motivates individuals to grant moral considerations to animals and how they react facing animal-exploitation situations.

Glenn D. Walters, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Kutztown University where he teaches classes in criminology, corrections, and substance abuse and crime. His principal research interests center around offender assessment, mediation and moderation analysis, and the development of an overarching psychological theory of crime that combines social influences and antisocial cognition and which views bullying, animal cruelty, and fire-setting as vital antecedents to delinquency and crime.

Amanda Whitfort, L.L.M., M.Sc., is an Associate...