Full Description
Updated for its Second Edition, this text provides the information emergency departments need about the medicolegal aspects of treating victims of violence, motor vehicle accidents, sexual assault, child abuse, elder abuse, and intimate partner abuse. It offers detailed guidelines on interviewing and examining the victim and collecting, preserving, and documenting evidence for legal proceedings. The book includes a chapter by an attorney on expert testimony and a chapter on forensic photography. A full-color photo insert illustrates injury patterns and key evidence. This edition provides increased coverage of motor vehicle accidents, DNA evidence, and new drugs of abuse.
Contents
Perpetrators John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker The Victims of Violence Carroll Ann Ellis Interviewing Techniques Peggy L. Johnson and John S. O'Brien, II Forensic Emergency Medicine: Penetrating Trauma William S. Smock Forensic Emergency Medicine: Motor Vehicle Crashes William S. Smock Forensic Examination of Victims and Perpetrators of Sexual Assault M. Christine Jackson, Judith A. Linden, and Annie Lewis-O'Connor Sexual Abuse and Sexual Assault of Adolescents V. Jill Kempthorne Child Sexual Assault Mesa Leventhal Baker Child Abuse Rich Lichenstein and Adrienne H. Suggs Elder Abuse Adam J. Geroff and Jonathan S. Olshaker Treating Survivors of Intimate Partner Abuse: Forensic Identification and Documentation Daniel J. Sheridan New Drugs of Abuse K. Sophia Dyer DNA Evidence Rosalind A. Bowman, Teri J. Labbe, and Kimberly A. Mullings Law Enforcement Donald E. Steinhice Sexual Assault and the Criminal Justice System Sharon A.H. May Testifying Sharon A.H. May Forensic Photography in the Emergency Department William S. Smock and Patrick E. Besant-Matthews
