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Dr. Randall
Lockwood joined the ASPCA as senior vice president for anti-cruelty
initiatives and legislative services in 2005.
For more than twenty-five years, Dr. Lockwood has worked with
humane societies and law-enforcement agencies serving as an expert on
the interactions between people and animals.
He has conducted numerous studies of violent offenders involving
interviews with animal cruelty offenders, child abusers, and prisoners
convicted of violent crimes, including serial killers. He
has testified in dozens of
trials involving cruelty to animals or the treatment of animals in the
context of other crimes, including dog fighting, child abuse, domestic
violence and homicide. His
efforts to increase public and professional awareness of the connection
between animal abuse and other forms of violence were profiled in an
award-winning 1999 British Broadcast Corporation/Arts & Entertainment
Network documentary entitled ”The Cruelty Connection”.
Dr. Lockwood holds
degrees in psychology and biology from Wesleyan
University in
Connecticut
and a doctorate in psychology from Washington
University in St. Louis.
He was Assistant Professor in the psychology departments of the
State University of New York at Stony Brook and Washington University.
His book Cruelty to Animals
and Interpersonal Violence, co-edited with Dr.
Frank Ascione, was published in 1998 by
Purdue University Press. He also authored
Animal Cruelty Prosecution:
Opportunities for Early Response to Crime and Interpersonal Violence
for the American Prosecutors Research Institute. (2006). His latest
book, written with Leslie Sinclair, DVM
and Melinda Merck, DVM is Forensic Investigation of Animal
Cruelty: A Guide for Veterinary and Law Enforcement Professionals
(2006), the first textbook in the emerging field of veterinary
forensics.
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