Kathleen M. Brown, PhD, APRN-BC,is Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing as well as a practicing Women's Health NP and a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner for the Northampton County, PA, Sexual Assault Response Team.Mary Muscari, PhD, MSCr, CPNP, PMHCNS-BC, AFN-BC, is a pediatric nurse practitioner (NP), psychiatric clinical specialist, forensic nursing clinical specialist, and a criminologist, who combines her unique educational background with over 40 years of experience working with a wide variety of children and adolescents.

• Preface: The Forensic Aspects of Adult & Older Adult Forensics SECTION I: GENERAL PRINCIPLES1. Cultural Aspects of Forensics 2. The Cycle and Continuum of Violence 3. Forensic Assessment and Documentation4. Principles of Evidence5. Navigating the Justice Systems6. Expert Witness Testimony7. Competency, Guardianship and Civil Commitment 8. Violence in Health Care Settings9. Professional Stress and BurnoutSECTION II: OLDER ADULTS AS VICTIMS10. Effects of victimization on adults and older adults11. Victimization of adults and older adults with physical, cognitive and mental disabilities 12. Intimate Partner Violence in adults13. Intimate Partner Violence in older adults14. LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Intimate Partner Violence15. Elders abused by family members16. Elders abused by health care workers17. Female victims of sexual assault18. Male victims of sexual assault19 Elder victims of sexual assault20. Victims of human trafficking21. Victims of personal injury22. Stalking23. Resources for adult and older adult victims of violenceSECTION III: OLDER ADULTS AS OFFENDERS24. Substance abuse and offending25. Offenders with psychiatric or cognitive disorders26. Dangerousness & risk assessment27. Life long-offender versus the new offender28. Offenders in correctional facilities29. Offenders in the community30. Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence31. Abusive parents32. Perpetrators of elder abuse33. Adult perpetrators of sexual violence34. Older adult perpetrators of sexual violence35. Female Offenders36. Animal cruelty: abuse, hoarding, and animal fighting37. Parenting while incarceratedSECTION IV: UNATURAL DEATHS38. Medicolegal Death Investigation39. Suspicious deaths of elders in long-term care facilities40. Death of elders related to neglect41. Suicide/Homicide 42. Autoerotic fatalities43. Families who lose a loved one to homicide

Kathleen M. Brown, PhD, APRN-BC,is Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing as well as a practicing Women's Health NP and a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner for the Northampton County, PA, Sexual Assault Response Team.Mary Muscari, PhD, MSCr, CPNP, PMHCNS-BC, AFN-BC, is a pediatric nurse practitioner (NP), psychiatric clinical specialist, forensic nursing clinical specialist, and a criminologist, who combines her unique educational background with over 40 years of experience working with a wide variety of children and adolescents.

• Preface: The Forensic Aspects of Adult & Older Adult Forensics SECTION I: GENERAL PRINCIPLES1. Cultural Aspects of Forensics 2. The Cycle and Continuum of Violence 3. Forensic Assessment and Documentation4. Principles of Evidence5. Navigating the Justice Systems6. Expert Witness Testimony7. Competency, Guardianship and Civil Commitment 8. Violence in Health Care Settings9. Professional Stress and BurnoutSECTION II: OLDER ADULTS AS VICTIMS10. Effects of victimization on adults and older adults11. Victimization of adults and older adults with physical, cognitive and mental disabilities 12. Intimate Partner Violence in adults13. Intimate Partner Violence in older adults14. LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Intimate Partner Violence15. Elders abused by family members16. Elders abused by health care workers17. Female victims of sexual assault18. Male victims of sexual assault19 Elder victims of sexual assault20. Victims of human trafficking21. Victims of personal injury22. Stalking23. Resources for adult and older adult victims of violenceSECTION III: OLDER ADULTS AS OFFENDERS24. Substance abuse and offending25. Offenders with psychiatric or cognitive disorders26. Dangerousness & risk assessment27. Life long-offender versus the new offender28. Offenders in correctional facilities29. Offenders in the community30. Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence31. Abusive parents32. Perpetrators of elder abuse33. Adult perpetrators of sexual violence34. Older adult perpetrators of sexual violence35. Female Offenders36. Animal cruelty: abuse, hoarding, and animal fighting37. Parenting while incarceratedSECTION IV: UNATURAL DEATHS38. Medicolegal Death Investigation39. Suspicious deaths of elders in long-term care facilities40. Death of elders related to neglect41. Suicide/Homicide 42. Autoerotic fatalities43. Families who lose a loved one to homicide

Kathleen M. Brown, PhD, APRN-BC,is Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing as well as a practicing Women's Health NP and a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner for the Northampton County, PA, Sexual Assault Response Team.Mary Muscari, PhD, MSCr, CPNP, PMHCNS-BC, AFN-BC, is a pediatric nurse practitioner (NP), psychiatric clinical specialist, forensic nursing clinical specialist, and a criminologist, who combines her unique educational background with over 40 years of experience working with a wide variety of children and adolescents.

• Preface: The Forensic Aspects of Adult & Older Adult Forensics SECTION I: GENERAL PRINCIPLES1. Cultural Aspects of Forensics 2. The Cycle and Continuum of Violence 3. Forensic Assessment and Documentation4. Principles of Evidence5. Navigating the Justice Systems6. Expert Witness Testimony7. Competency, Guardianship and Civil Commitment 8. Violence in Health Care Settings9. Professional Stress and BurnoutSECTION II: OLDER ADULTS AS VICTIMS10. Effects of victimization on adults and older adults11. Victimization of adults and older adults with physical, cognitive and mental disabilities 12. Intimate Partner Violence in adults13. Intimate Partner Violence in older adults14. LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Intimate Partner Violence15. Elders abused by family members16. Elders abused by health care workers17. Female victims of sexual assault18. Male victims of sexual assault19 Elder victims of sexual assault20. Victims of human trafficking21. Victims of personal injury22. Stalking23. Resources for adult and older adult victims of violenceSECTION III: OLDER ADULTS AS OFFENDERS24. Substance abuse and offending25. Offenders with psychiatric or cognitive disorders26. Dangerousness & risk assessment27. Life long-offender versus the new offender28. Offenders in correctional facilities29. Offenders in the community30. Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence31. Abusive parents32. Perpetrators of elder abuse33. Adult perpetrators of sexual violence34. Older adult perpetrators of sexual violence35. Female Offenders36. Animal cruelty: abuse, hoarding, and animal fighting37. Parenting while incarceratedSECTION IV: UNATURAL DEATHS38. Medicolegal Death Investigation39. Suspicious deaths of elders in long-term care facilities40. Death of elders related to neglect41. Suicide/Homicide 42. Autoerotic fatalities43. Families who lose a loved one to homicide