Child Abuse Pocket Atlas, Volume 5: Child Fatality and Neglect

by Randell Alexander MD, PhD

Overview

This new pocket atlas, part 5 of an ongoing series on child abuse, is designed specifically for professionals involved in the investigation of child death, both intentional and unintentional. Readers in law enforcement, medicine, and other readers professionally involved in child death investigation will find this convenient resource essential to their work in the field. Over 600 full-color crime scene photos, reenactments, and photos taken in postmortem examinations and corresponding case studies written by expert investigators illustrate a variety of abusive and accidental causes of death, including neglect, burning, drowning, natural causes, and shaken baby syndrome. This text is a vital tool for any and all members of the child fatality review team, who will benefit both from its comprehensive content and from its convenient and accessible design.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936590629
Publisher:	STM Learning, Inc.
Publication date:	03/25/2016
Series:	Pocket Atlas Series
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

Randell Alexander is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Florida and the Morehouse School of Medicine. He currently serves as chief of the Division of Child Protection and Forensic Pediatrics and interim chief of the Division of Developmental Pediatrics at the University of Florida-Jacksonville. In addition, he is the statewide medical director of child protections teams for the Department of Health's Children's Medical Services and is part of the International Advisory Board for the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome. He has also served as vice chair of the US Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect, on the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the boards of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and Prevent Child Abuse America. Randell Alexander has served on state child death review committees in Iowa, Georgia, and Florida, and two regional child death review committees. He is an active researcher, lectures widely, and testifies frequently in major child abuse cases throughout the country.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The Child Death Specialist

Chapter 2. Perinatal Death

Chapter 3. Sudden, Unexplained Infant Death

Chapter 4. Nonabusive Injuries

Chapter 5. Burn Injuries

Chapter 6. Drowning

Chapter 7. Physical Abuse

Chapter 8. Homicides

Chapter 9. Suicides

Chapter 10. Military Approaches

Chapter 11. Neglect