Sentences with phrase «with vulnerable victims»

Since 1997, she has been training prosecutors and criminal justice professionals in handling cases with vulnerable victims, especially animals.

A former police detective, she has worked in CID and specialised in roles dealing with vulnerable victims, high - risk victims of domestic abuse, and serious sexual offences.

Not exact matches

The «Elder Investment Fraud and Financial Exploitation Prevention Program» (EIFFE Prevention Program) educates healthcare and legal professionals to recognize when their older patients and clients may be vulnerable to or victims of financial abuse, particularly those patients with mild cognitive impairment, and then to refer these at - risk patients to State Securities Regulators, local adult protective services professionals or for further screening and assistance as needed.

Justice For Children International is by no means alone, we are a founding members of Stop the Traffik, a major global coalition with over 300 member organisations based out of the U.K. Stop the Traffik works together to help stop the sale of people, to see the traffickers prosecuted, and to protect the victims of human trafficking and those vulnerable to this crime.

The «core values» of all the world's religions include a belief in the integrity of each human being and in our responsibility for one another, with special obligations toward the poor, the vulnerable and «the victims of oppression or tyranny.»

Mr Lamb's comments came after families of Winterbourne View Hospital abuse victims accused the Government, NHS and local authorities of an «appalling failure» over the rehousing of vulnerable people with disabilities.

Poor social - communication skills can make them vulnerable when involved with the Criminal Justice System as a victim, witness or suspect.

A Syracuse couple is accused of tricking vulnerable homeowners into signing over deeds to their homes while leaving victims stuck with the mortgage, according to a lawsuit filed by the state Attorney General's Office.

AAAS's partnership with HelpAge USA will ensure the scientific rigor of the study and that it is undertaken in a way that is ethically responsible, mindful that the subjects of the study are among the most vulnerable victims of human rights violations.

«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.»

With well over 1,000 online dating sites, scammers are regularly trolling these sites looking for vulnerable victims.

These scammers are very skilled at building trust and know how to make vulnerable victims fall in love with them.

Her beautiful, exhausted performance in You Only Live Once (1937) as the young woman partnered with a vulnerable Henry Fonda who become criminals on the lam has a tenderness and romantic despair that makes this memorable movie quite moving as it examines two everyday people who are very much the «victims of circumstances» in Depression era society.

Cultural Caregiving Services must be accessed to the vulnerable groups — the oppressed, those with disabilities, those suffering from trauma, victims of war and disaster, the abandoned, the street kids, the out - of - school youth, the delinquent, the indigenous youth who feel helpless, excluded or desperate.

«We're most concerned about having some already - vulnerable person start to identify with the victim and really start to think that suicide is the solution to his or her problems,» Gould says.

October is National Bullying Awareness Month, and our most vulnerable population for being the victims of bullying are children with intellectual, developmental, or other disabilities.

Comprehensive character education efforts can build an atmosphere where students feel included, connected, and part of their school community; where both students and teachers step up to report bullying and stand up for victims; where teachers check in with vulnerable or troubled students instead of hoping, «she's fine» or «he's too much trouble»; and where parents are involved and engaged.

The «Elder Investment Fraud and Financial Exploitation Prevention Program» (EIFFE Prevention Program) educates healthcare and legal professionals to recognize when their older patients and clients may be vulnerable to or victims of financial abuse, particularly those patients with mild cognitive impairment, and then to refer these at - risk patients to State Securities Regulators, local adult protective services professionals or for further screening and assistance as needed.

BOISE - On Friday afternoon, a plane landed in Boise with some of the most vulnerable victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas.

> So you are supposed to be on the IPCC and to be dealing with climate change, victims, vulnerable, and not be policy - prescriptive.

Those who suffer from all this are the public; the most vulnerable; the victims of crime; witnesses called to give evidence; and those who are innocent of the offences with which they are charged.

The figures show younger children are most vulnerable, with 72 percent of the drowning victims younger than 5 years old.

Because these victims are some of our community's most vulnerable members, it is especially important to take steps to reduce pedestrian crashes and consult with a pedestrian accident in Bardstown when they do.

Our team is committed to remaining at the forefront of this area, and has a well developed and recognized expertise in dealing with vulnerable witnesses and victims in a sensitive yet effective manner.

The idea itself is still vulnerable: that peace and security will be more likely and lasting with the knowledge that you will be punished if you commit or actively support atrocities crime (the preventative effect) and, secondly, that victims and societies will be healed because truth is established and the perpetrators are punished.

This is due to the fact that the law is intended to protect a vulnerable group (minors) and assumes that an individual under the age of 18 is unable to consent to sexual touching when the individual doing the touching occupies a position of authority or power, is in a relationship of dependency with the victim or is in an exploitative relationship with the victim.

Immigration: All aspects of immigration, asylum, nationality and refugee law with particular emphasis and expertise in: asylum and human rights cases; overlap between asylum and extradition law; representing children subject to immigration control; representing victims of trafficking and other vulnerable clients; detention and deportation; immigration issues in adoption and surrogacy cases; immigration for family members of British and settled people; EEA - related matters, in particular relating to third - country national family members; appeal work in FTT and UT and the higher courts; public law challenges to Home Office in judicial review; and immigration bail.

Finally, funding allows The Project to participate in targeted outreach and trainings to college and university students, faculty, campus law enforcement, and others on the legal rights of victims of sexual assault, leveraging its experience with youth and education law to benefit that especially vulnerable population.»

There are programs for court support for vulnerable individuals, victim notifications that are sent out — and these are financed with funds collected through this compensation under the victims of crime — and referrals for counselling.

A 2005 report from the Metropolitan Police Service indicates that over the course of one month, 87 % of alleged victims were vulnerable in at least one of the following ways: being under the age of 18, having a mental health issue, being in a relationship with the accused, and having consumed drugs or alcohol prior to the offense.

These structures include the overlapping systems of oppression that operate not only to render some spouses — most often women — more vulnerable to violence and with fewer resources to exit relationships, but also to construe only some spouses as «victims» deserving of legal redress.

At a time when the American Muslim community has been so vulnerable to hate crimes and other bigoted attacks, Facebook must take responsibility by notifying and providing full disclosure to the American Muslim and other communities that were attacked and by working with the affected communities and the groups that were the victims of cybersquatting to develop ways to address it,» Khera told The Daily Beast.

If the zero - day exploits successfully worked against the vulnerable software on the victim's computer, then they dropped Black Vine's custom malware, providing the attackers with remote access to the computer.

She was convinced early in her career, even in her days at Columbia School of Social Work, where she worked with vulnerable adolescents and families, that problem solving was best approached collaboratively, not aggressively or adversarially — and never by pathologizing or vilifying the victims.

Children who have disorganized attachment with their primary attachment figure have been shown to be vulnerable to stress, have problems with regulation and control of negative emotions, and display oppositional, hostile - aggressive behaviours, and coercive styles of interaction.2, 3 They may exhibit low self - esteem, internalizing and externalizing problems in the early school years, poor peer interactions, unusual or bizarre behaviour in the classroom, high teacher ratings of dissociative behaviour and internalizing symptoms in middle childhood, high levels of teacher - rated social and behavioural difficulties in class, low mathematics attainment, and impaired formal operational skills.3 They may show high levels of overall psychopathology at 17 years.3 Disorganized attachment with a primary attachment figure is over-represented in groups of children with clinical problems and those who are victims of maltreatment.1, 2,3 A majority of children with early disorganized attachment with their primary attachment figure during infancy go on to develop significant social and emotional maladjustment and psychopathology.3, 4 Thus, an attachment - based intervention should focus on preventing and / or reducing disorganized attachment.