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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A Collaborative Approach Bonnie Brandl. CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Reports Made to Law Enforcement The purpose of law enforcement involvement is to respond to calls from citizens . The primary focus of this response is to determine if there ...
... law enforcement's role is that of a first - responder and often the primary investigator . In the majority of local law enforcement agen- cies , both functions may be the responsibility of a single person . If cases are accepted by other ...
... law enforcement do not involve crimes , but are " order maintenance " or " conflict resolu- tion " matters . Response to such service calls fit well within a community policing approach , in which the role of law enforcement has ...