Pediatric homicide
Subtitle: medical investigation
By: edited by Karen Griest.
Contributors: Griest, Karen.
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781420073003
Subjects: Children -- Mortality; Child abuse -- Diagnosis; Children -- Wounds and injuries; Homicide; Forensic Medicine; Child; Homicide; Infant
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Intentional head injury in infants and young children / Helen Whitwell; title: Neonaticide / Kim A. Collins; title: Intentional suffocation in infants and young children / Karen J. Griest; title: Inflicted fatal thoracic and abdominal injuries in infants and young children / Karen J. Griest; title: Child abuse by drowning / Karen J. Griest; title: Supporting evidence in physical child abuse / Karen J. Griest; title: Intentional starvation/malnutrition and dehydration in children / Kim A. Collins; title: Proving pediatric poisoning in the courtroom / Steven B. Karch; title: Timing of death and injuries in infants and young children / Karen J. Griest.