Sentences with phrase «potential abuse victims»

«Addressing this gap in the state's law could help prevent risk of gun violence to potential abuse victims.»

Not exact matches

But it could also be an act of manipulation to groom the pastor to perceive the abuser's prior offenses and character in a way that allows him to begin to groom and abuse future potential victims.

I am not suggesting that what I feel is as strong as what a potential victim of sexual abuse would feel; just that I am entitled to have an illogical emotional reaction to someone associating the way I fed my kids with incest.

You aren't suggesting that what you feel is as strong as what a potential victim of sexual abuse would feel?

The law beefs up law enforcement's ability to arrest potential abusers, provides funding for local centers and programs to give aid to the abused and offers legal protections for victims.

«Currently, most victims of elder abuse and neglect pass through our emergency departments with a life - threatening condition unidentified,» said the latter paper's lead study author, Tony Rosen, MD, MPH, of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, N.Y. «A multi-disciplinary, team - based approach supported by additional research and funding has the potential to improve the identification of elder abuse and improve the health and safety of our most vulnerable patients.»

During Mr. Bershadker's tenure, the ASPCA also launched the Cruelty Intervention Advocacy program, a ground - breaking new initiative to help protect companion animals that are in danger of potential abuse or neglect, helping hundreds of New York City's animals in jeopardy of becoming cruelty victims.

While these are all potential causes of nursing home and neglect, the reality is that none of these excuses are a justification for elderly victims suffering abuse.

Cooper and Reid focus on family law, disability law, and victims of abuse, which means there are plenty of potential clients.

Our nationwide network of nursing home abuse attorneys helps provide equal access to our nation's court system — regardless of a potential victim's location, income, or race.

It is likely that these developments will assist victims of more recent sexual abuse in recovering compensation from bystanders who, in the face of actual knowledge of a problem or potential problem, or turning a blind eye to such a problem, fail to discharge their obligations to protect young and vulnerable individuals to whom they owed duties from harm.

We believe that in abuse situations — to a greater extent than in situations involving crime victims in general — there is clear potential for abusers to cause further serious harm to the victim or to others, such as other family members in a household or other residents of a nursing home.

It prevents accurate monitoring of abuse potential, as the victim is likely to be afraid to report honestly if the potential is high, and it may cause more violence after therapy has stirred troublesome emotions and conversations or if the victim reports the abuser's actions honestly.

So - called parental notification and / or consent laws for abortion, which do nothing to improve communication between parents and children but rather have the potential to harm young people who are already vulnerable — and can especially endanger minors when they are victims of abuse, rape or incest at the hand of a parent.

How Victims Become Offenders Widom & Wilson (2009) In Children as Victims, Witnesses, and Offenders: Psychological Science and the Law View Abstract Presents current knowledge about the relationship between childhood victimization and juvenile offending and examines potential mechanisms whereby abused and neglected children develop from child victims into child and adolescent offVictims Become Offenders Widom & Wilson (2009) In Children as Victims, Witnesses, and Offenders: Psychological Science and the Law View Abstract Presents current knowledge about the relationship between childhood victimization and juvenile offending and examines potential mechanisms whereby abused and neglected children develop from child victims into child and adolescent offVictims, Witnesses, and Offenders: Psychological Science and the Law View Abstract Presents current knowledge about the relationship between childhood victimization and juvenile offending and examines potential mechanisms whereby abused and neglected children develop from child victims into child and adolescent offvictims into child and adolescent offenders.

Pharmacotherapeutic and psychotherapeutic interventions for treating PTSD symptoms among men or boy sexual abuse victims may have the potential to reduce male - perpetrated IPV.