Elder Abuse Detection and Intervention: A Collaborative ApproachPRESERVING A LIFE OF PEACE AND DIGNITY FOR THE AGING This ground-breaking volume offers a new, collaborative approach geared to enhance case review, improve victim safety, raise abuser accountability, and promote system change. Sharing the common goal of promoting elder victim safety, experts in adult protective services, law enforcement, prosecution, health care, advocacy, and civil justice have formed a unique, multidisciplinary team approach to tackle the following critical topics:
As the aging population continues to grow, so does the potential for increasing cases of elder abuse. Replete with case examples that allow the experiences of victims to speak for themselves, this book provides the framework to begin, and to build on, collaborative approaches at the local, state, and national levels toward ending elder abuse. |
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... conduct • Provide assistance during investigation • Initiate charges • Conduct grand jury investigations • Prosecute cases on behalf of the state • Seek increased bail or remand • Obtain court orders • Issue subpoenas to secure ...
... conduct Collect evidence of a crime • Arrange for and conduct forensic evidence examinations Conduct identification procedures , including photos and lineups ( continued ) TABLE 9.2 Intervention Strategies by Discipline ( continued ) ...
... conduct , that is a series of acts over a period of time , however short , that evidence a continuity of purpose ( U.S. Department of Justice , National Institute of Justice , 1993 ) . It is conduct , often crimi- nal in nature ...