The Juvenile Skeleton in Forensic Abuse Investigations

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ross, Ann H. (Editor), Abel, Suzanne M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Laboratory medicine.; Forensic science.; Forensic medicine.; Anthropology.; Biomedicine.; Forensic Science.; Forensic Medicine.; Laboratory Medicine.

Juvenile homicide and fatal maltreatment remain serious and pervasive problems in the developed world and especially in the United States, where in 2005 some 1,500 children died from neglect and physical abuse. Alarming statistics such as this, as well as an upsurge in the media attention paid to al...