Download or read book When Caregivers Kill written by Betty L. Alt and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year in the U.S. hundreds of children under the age of ten are killed by parents, relatives, or other caregivers. In recent years, families have become less dependent on kinship and neighborhood relationships, so they may become nearly invisible to those who might otherwise be involved in their activities. Because of this isolation, danger to children often does not become visible to the public until the child is injured or, worse, dead. This book offers an overview of the various caregivers involved in child homicide. It covers murders committed by mothers, fathers, babysitters, and others and examines the common circumstances that lead to such violence. Using cases throughout, the authors reveal the extent and nature of child homicide in chilling detail. Readers will come away from the book with a greater understanding of the problem_the triggers that lead to child homicide, the motives and means, what killers have in common, and how to prevent and address child homicide.

Download or read book Child Maltreatment Fatalities in the United States written by Emily M. Douglas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the prevention of child abuse and neglect deaths in the U.S. In 2013 1,520 children died from maltreatment. This book defines child maltreatment fatalities (CMFs) and discusses the prevalence of deaths in the U.S. over the last several decades. It addresses the known risk factors for maltreatment deaths including child, parent, the parent-child relationship, and household risk factors. The main focus of the book addresses the responses and interventions that have been put in place in order to prevent CMFs: the child welfare profession, child death review teams, safe haven laws, criminal justice responses, public education, and new, federal efforts in the U.S. to reduce CMFs in the U.S. The book finishes by making recommendations for researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers about how to prevent fatal maltreatment among children in the U.S.

Download or read book Poisons written by David J. George and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique book on recognition and investigation of criminal poisoning for investigators of all backgrounds and stages of their careers. Poisons: An Introduction for Forensic Investigators is a concise yet comprehensive overview of toxicants and unanticipated circumstances in which poisoning occurs. This book expands awareness of poisoning possibilities, heightens recognition of the toxic potential of many substances, and provides information to aid in focusing investigations. Poisons discusses life-threatening toxic substances and agents that modify behavior to achieve criminal goals. These include drugs that facilitate sexual assaults and robberies, and those found in medical child abuse and drug-product tampering. More than 230 case studies illustrate both unintentional and intentional poisoning and highlight situations where poisoning may not immediately be apparent. Information is included in pertinent criminal poisoning cases to illustrate the temperament of poisoners, their relationship to victims, their basis for poison selection, and their method of administration. Since Poisons is written by a single author, the discussions, format, educational level, and terminology remain consistent to aid crime scene investigators, homicide detectives, forensic scientists, death investigators, toxicologists, medical examiners, attorneys, and students. The book's more than 650 references are an asset to frame knowledge as well as a resource to return to again and again.

Download or read book Fatal Family Violence and the Dementias written by Neil Websdale and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores dementia-related aggression, violence, and homicide through a detailed analysis of “gray mist killings.” The term gray mist killing refers to intimate partner homicides (IPHs) committed by spouses/partners suffering from dementia, homicides of dementia sufferers committed by their caregiving spouses/partners or other family members, and IPHs attributable to the complications of caring for a co-resident family member suffering from dementia. Killings by people with dementia raise questions about the role of biological, psychological, and sociological forces. This book therefore encourages discussions around the relative weighting of these interrelated forces, and why the criminal justice system and the courts have a hard time handling these killings. It also adds to our understanding of the social responses to people with dementia, the orchestration of services, the nature of caring, and the interaction between sufferers and those familial, community, and state actors that provide support and care. The vividly detailed case studies (from the US, UK and Australia) uniquely inform criminological debates about violence, homicide, and the social responses to these complex phenomena. They are organized around the apparent motives for the killing, such as mercy, theft, prior intimate partner violence, mental illness, and exhaustion. The social responses of families, communities, and state actors are examined and contextualized against what researchers and dementia specialists suggest are promising or best practices for intervention. Apparent triggers or circumstantial precipitants for the killings invite discussion of signals, risks, and preventive interventions. The book culminates in an attempt to make sense of gray mist killings, as well as a discussion of broader implications and significance in relation to globalization, violence against women, the rising prevalence of the dementias, declining birthrates, climate change, and sustainable economic development. Drawing from a variety of disciplines, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, psychology, psychiatry, anthropology, gender studies, social work, law, public policy, and gerontology. It should also appeal to judges, prosecutors, lawyers, social workers, gerontologists, law enforcement, adult protective services, physicians, psychologists, and psychiatrists.

Download or read book Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany written by Susan Benedict and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the ethics of nursing and midwifery, and how these were abrogated during the Nazi era. Nurses and midwives actively killed their patients, many of whom were disabled children and infants and patients with mental (and other) illnesses or intellectual disabilities. The book gives the facts as well as theoretical perspectives as a lens through which these crimes can be viewed. It also provides a way to teach this history to nursing and midwifery students, and, for the first time, explains the role of one of the world’s most historically prominent midwifery leaders in the Nazi crimes.

Download or read book Splice written by L.S. Silverthorne and published by Elusive Blue Fiction. This book was released on 2023-08-13 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antarans overrun Civilization As ancient ruins light up across the system. Triggered by Peter Mitchell’s DNA. The war converges on Civilization as ancient ruins light up across the system. Triggered by Peter Mitchell’s DNA. As Peter unravels the tangled truth about his existence and the enigmatic secrets encoded in his DNA, Antarans assault the planet while UCOE government operatives demand answers about Dr. Orlando Constantine. As betrayals emerge and Dr. Constantine’s mysterious plan takes shape, Peter becomes an unwilling pawn when he discovers the shocking fate of the lost Earth colonies on Naharra and Ballese. When hidden code in Peter’s DNA activates, he discovers that he carries a genetic key to an ancient alien machine that could turn the tide of the war. A key that both factions will stop at nothing to seize. A key spliced into Peter Mitchell’s DNA.

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Irish Criminology written by Deirdre Healy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Irish Criminology is the first edited collection of its kind to bring together the work of leading Irish criminologists in a single volume. While Irish criminology can be characterised as a nascent but dynamic discipline, it has much to offer the Irish and international reader due to the unique historical, cultural, political, social and economic arrangements that exist on the island of Ireland. The Handbook consists of 30 chapters, which offer original, comprehensive and critical reviews of theory, research, policy and practice in a wide range of subject areas. The chapters are divided into four thematic sections: Understanding crime examines specific offence types, including homicide, gangland crime and white-collar crime, and the theoretical perspectives used to explain them. Responding to crime explores criminal justice responses to crime, including crime prevention, restorative justice, approaches to policing and trial as well as post-conviction issues such as imprisonment, community sanctions and rehabilitation. Contexts of crime investigates the social, political and cultural contexts of the policymaking process, including media representations, politics, the role of the victim and the impact of gender. Emerging ideas focuses on innovative ideas that prompt a reconsideration of received wisdom on particular topics, including sexual violence and ethnicity. Charting the key contours of the criminological enterprise on the island of Ireland and placing the Irish material in the context of the wider European and international literature, this book is essential reading for those involved in the study of Irish criminology and international and comparative criminal justice.

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Download or read book When Caregivers Kill written by Betty Sowers Alt and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child Murder.

Download or read book Rational Suicide Irrational Laws written by Susan Stefan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When should we try to prevent suicide? Should it be facilitated for some people, in some circumstances? For the last forty years, law and policy on suicide have followed two separate and distinct tracks: laws aimed at preventing suicide and, increasingly, laws aimed at facilitating it. In Rational Suicide, Irrational Laws legal scholar Susan Stefan argues that these laws co-exist because they are based on two radically disparate conceptions of the would-be suicide. This is the first book that unifies policies and laws, including constitutional law, criminal law, malpractice law, and civil commitment law, toward people who want to end their lives. Based on the author's expert understanding of mental health and legal systems, analysis of related national and international laws and policy, and surveys and interviews with more than 300 suicide-attempt survivors, doctors, lawyers, and mental health professionals, Rational Suicide, Irrational Laws exposes the counterproductive nature of current policies and laws about suicide. Stefan proposes and defends specific reforms, including increased protection of mental health professionals from liability, increased protection of suicidal people from coercive interventions, reframing medical involvement in assisted suicide, and focusing on approaches to suicidal people that help them rather than assuming suicidality is always a symptom of mental illness. Stefan compares policies and laws in different states in the U.S. and examines the policies and laws of other countries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, including the 2015 legalization of assisted suicide in Canada. The book includes model statutes, seven in-depth studies of people whose cases presented profound ethical, legal, and policy dilemmas, and over a thousand cases interpreting rights and responsibilities relating to suicide, especially in the area of psychiatric malpractice.

Download or read book Death and Dying in India written by Suhita Chopra Chatterjee and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines different settings where elderly die, including hospitals, family homes and palliative set-ups. The discourse is set in the backdrop of international attempts to restructure and reconfigure the health delivery system for ageing population.

Download or read book Healthcare Crime written by Kelly M. Pyrek and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime perpetrated by healthcare professionals is increasingly pervasive in today‘s hospitals and other healthcare settings. Patients, coworkers, and employers are vulnerable to exploitation, fraud, abuse, and even murder. Investigative journalist Kelly M. Pyrek interviews experts who provide accounts concerning the range of criminality lurking in t

Download or read book When Parents Kill Children written by Thea Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection addresses a substantial gap in the existing literature on filicide by presenting the latest research from empirical investigations around the world. Despite its low occurrence, little is known about the incidences, causes and circumstances of filicide nationally and globally, and this international volume address the challenges associated with explaining and understanding filicide. Additionally, the authors also outline the role of professionals in assessing risk, and the importance of support for, and advocacy of, families of victims in the aftermath of these tragic events. Exploring a truly diverse range of countries, from various English speaking countries, to Chile, and Japan, this book presents an authoritative look at research on filicide, and crucially, examines the programs currently being developed for both intervention and prevention. An important and well-researched collection, this book will be of particular interest for scholars of do mestic violence and filicide, as well as professionals such as social workers.

Download or read book Secret Waters written by Betty Alt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the town of Paramont, over a two-year period in the late 1940s, several women have been murdered. For some reason all of the bodies have been placed in or near water -- a river or lake. Detectives Amos Taylor and Richard Samms spend months attempting to track down the elusive killer identified merely as young, “good-looking” and driving a light-colored sedan.

Download or read book Running in the Shadows written by Betty L. Alt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having left Boston and Chicago with millions of stolen dollars from former husbands, Ridgeway and Simpson, the beautiful and elusive woman is now living in Kansas under the name Janet Johansen. There, she meets and marries widower billionaire, Allen Randolphe, who resides in Kansas City, Missouri with his daughter, Margaret. For Janet, life is beautiful until at a Randolphe business event, Chicago guest Rusty Aldred tells Margaret that he knew her stepmother under another name and that a private detective is trying to locate that woman. When Margaret mentions Aldred's comments to her stepmother, Janet has to make a decision: assume that Margaret doesn't believe Aldred and that the detective will never find her . . . or run!

Download or read book Night and Evil written by Betty L. Alt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his partner Richard Samms, shot and facing a lengthy period of recuperation, Detective Levi Taylor and the other men in the Paramont Police Department are kept busy with the usual number of major crimes. Then, they are plagued for two years with numerous calls from citizens about a Peeping Tom. Considered simply a nuisance problem at first, this changes when a woman is severely beaten and raped. Can Hunter and Samms, now back on the job, find "The Peeper" before someone is killed?

Download or read book Scales of Justice written by Betty L. Alt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-07-18 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the a late October night, two shots ring out when a man answers his door, and the shooter quickly drives away. Colorado Springs detectives, Randall Hunter and James Douglass, assume it's a one-time incident until there is another similar murder . . . and then another. Without any leads to the perpetrator, named'the "front-door killer" by the detectives, all they can do is sit and wait for the next victim. SCALES of JUSTICE is the fourteenth book co-authored by Sandra Wells and Betty Alt. Wells has a Ph.D. from Colorado State University in Fort Collins while Alt has an M.A. from Northeast Missouri State University. Both authors have taught at the university level and now enjoy the "fascinating hobby" of writing books.