The Juvenile Skeleton in Forensic Abuse Investigations
Juvenile homicide and fatal maltreatment remain serious and pervasive problems in the developed world and especially in the United States, where in 2005 some 1,500 children died from neglect and physical abuse. Alarming statistics such as this, as well as
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Ann H. Ross · Suzanne M. Abel Editors
The Juvenile Skeleton in Forensic Abuse Investigations
Editors Ann H. Ross Department of Sociology & Anthropology North Carolina State University 10 Current Drive Raleigh, North Carolina, USA [email protected]
Suzanne M. Abel Charleston County Coroner’s Office 4050 Bridgeview Drive Perimeter Center, Suite 500 North Charleston, South Carolina, USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-61779-254-0 e-ISBN 978-1-61779-255-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-61779-255-7 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011931471 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Humana Press, c/o Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Humana Press is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
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Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ann H. Ross and Suzanne M. Abel 2 Fatal Child Maltreatment: The Challenges of Identifying the Causes and Incidence of Deaths from Abuse and Neglect . . . . Krista L. Ragan 3 Basic Juvenile Skeletal Anatomy and Growth and Development . . Ashley L. Humphries 4 Biomechanical and Remodeling Factors in the Interpretation of Fractures in Juveniles . . . . . . . . . . . . Douglas H. Ubelaker and Kristin M. Montaperto
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5 Birth Trauma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cynthia Heldrich
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6 Non-accidental Skeletal Trauma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Suzanne M. Abel
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7 Scene Investigation in Juvenile Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bobbi Jo O’Neal and Jennifer Schindell
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8 Medicolegal Issues of Battered Baby Syndrome . . . . . . . . . . . Erin H. Kimmerle and Leszek Chrostowski
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9 Evidence of Neglect from Immature Human Skeletal Remains: An Auxological Approach from Bones and Teeth . . . . . Hugo F.V. Cardoso and Teresa Magalhães 10
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Fatal Starvation/Malnutrition: Medicolegal Investigation from the Juvenile Skeleton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ann H. Ross Juvenile Stature Estimation: A Chilean Perspective . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Sutphin and Ann H. Ross
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Bone Weathering of Juvenile-Sized Remains in the North Carolina Piedmont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah L. Cunningham, Scott A. Kirkland, and Ann H. Ross
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