Sexual Assault
Victimization Across the Life Span: A Color Atlas
GW Medical (Publisher)
Published on 29. March 2002
Book
Hardback
775 pages
978-1-878060-61-7 (ISBN)
Description
Sexual Assault: Victimization Across the Life Span: A Color Atlas is an exhaustive, full-color photographic reference for any and all expert professionals who work with sexual assault victims. It contains more than 1700 photographs taken in forensic examinations conducted by teams of medical practitioners and investigative personnel. This comprehensive photographic reference offers authentic clinical examples of physical findings in cases of sexual assault across the life span.
For ease of access, this atlas is divided into 7 sections representing victims at every stage of life. Detailed case studies of patients from infancy to old age include descriptions and assessments of both verified cases of sexual assault and non-assault variants for comparison. Corresponding sets of full-color exam photos demonstrate key findings indicative of either sexual assault or non-assaultive sexual contact. These cases address female and male victims and include examples of a wide variety of assaultive injuries and other types of physical evidence associated with sexual assault.
Sexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span: A Color Atlas was designed and edited by a diverse team of medical doctors, forensic nurses and nurse practitioners, law enforcement professionals, attorneys, and victim advocates. Readers from those fields and from all other branches of the multidisciplinary team will find this broad and comprehensive atlas an essential tool for the investigation of and response to cases of sexual assault in victims of every age.
For ease of access, this atlas is divided into 7 sections representing victims at every stage of life. Detailed case studies of patients from infancy to old age include descriptions and assessments of both verified cases of sexual assault and non-assault variants for comparison. Corresponding sets of full-color exam photos demonstrate key findings indicative of either sexual assault or non-assaultive sexual contact. These cases address female and male victims and include examples of a wide variety of assaultive injuries and other types of physical evidence associated with sexual assault.
Sexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span: A Color Atlas was designed and edited by a diverse team of medical doctors, forensic nurses and nurse practitioners, law enforcement professionals, attorneys, and victim advocates. Readers from those fields and from all other branches of the multidisciplinary team will find this broad and comprehensive atlas an essential tool for the investigation of and response to cases of sexual assault in victims of every age.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Saint Louis
United States
Publishing group
STM Learning
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1735 images
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-878060-61-7 (9781878060617)
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Additional editions

Barbara W. Girardin | Diana K. Faugno | Mary J. Spencer
Sexual Assault: Victimization Across the Life Span
A Color Atlas
E-Book
02/2003
1st Edition
STM Learning
€103.99
Available for download
Content
A Colour Atlas 1. Infant sexual assault and abuse 2. Young child sexual assault and abuse 3. Childhood sexual assault and abuse 4. Pre-adolescent sexual assault and abuse 5. Adolescent sexual assault and abuse 6. Adult sexual assault 7. Elderly sexual assault