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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... Criminal justice professionals share a common ethical principle of equi- tably enforcing the law and protecting the public . In general , each owes a primary duty to the community and public at large , rather than to an individual ...
... Criminal justice system profession- als and protective services workers have differing perceptions about each other ( Harshbarger , 1989 ) . Historically , there has been a great deal of mistrust between the social service and criminal ...
... criminal justice system " ( Wolf , 1999b ) . Wolf explains that , historically , crimes against elders and perpetrated by strangers were handled by the criminal justice system ; and crimes of elder abuse , neglect , and exploitation by ...