Sexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span: A Clinical Guide and Color Atlas

by Angelo P. Giardino, Elizabeth Datner, Janice Asher

Sexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span A Clinical Guide and Color Atlas is an essential two volume set for anyone who may come into contact with someone who has been sexually assaulted. Professionals from the medical, legal, and law enforcement fields will find critical information on how to perform a physical examination, properly document examinations and investigations, collect forensic evidence (including DNA analysis), and address legal and prosecution issues. Individual sections are devoted to the unique problems of sexual victimization for children, adolescents and adults. Other invaluable chapters on domestic violence and acquaintance rape, male sexual assault, sexual assault in correctional settings, assault of the elderly, and victimization of people with disabilities are included.
Authored by a pediatrician, an emergency room physician, and a gynecologist, Sexual Assault Victimization Across the Life Span A Clinical Guide offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available. Actual case histories and full-color photos are used to aid in the evaluation, care, and follow-up treatment of a sexually assaulted person of any age. Written by experts in various assault-related fields, this clinical guide addresses and discounts the myths surrounding sexual assault and presents specific findings related to behavior, affective functioning, cognitive ability, and physical conditions.

With 50 contributors

1386 pages, Hardcover

First published February 15, 2003