Zilney presents an innovative and exciting study of how the connection between animal abuse and child abuse sets up a diagnostic behavior that clinicians, teachers, and police can use in generating databases to monitor family abuse, and perhaps possibly explain some types of homicide.

Cutting through the hysteria and hype, Reconsidering Sex Crimes and Offenders: Prosecution or Persecution? argues that while convicted violent sex offenders certainly should be punished, many laws targeting minor sexual offenses are outdated, overly severe, and too concerned with satisfying public outrage driven by distortions, misconceptions, and sensationalistic media coverage. Reconsidering Sex Crimes and Offenders challenges readers' understanding of who sex offenders are, how they should be treated, and how best to protect the community from such offenders. Lisa Anne Zilney and Laura J....