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Week 4 Discussion 1 Child and Elder Abuse What are some issues with getting accurate information on the level of child and elder abuse? As usual, the lack of adequate reporting makes it difficult to obtain precise data on the extent of child and elder abuse. The same is true for children since there is no accurate information on seniors. It is unacceptable to have youngsters and our seniors wait 20 years. There is an urgent need for research, which needs to be coordinated via the system with the help of funding sources, decision-makers, and researchers in particular. The elderly and children's lives will be significantly improved once this is finished. According to Cooper & Livingston (2016), "studying elder abuse also creates ethical difficulties, such as how to preserve confidentiality when abuses are found during data collecting. Describe characteristics that make a child or senior adult more likely to be a victim of abuse, neglect, or maltreatment. Living conditions are the factors that increase a child's likelihood of experiencing abuse, neglect, or maltreatment. A youngster becomes a potential target for a mother's boyfriend or even a family member when they live with a single parent who is unemployed and on benefits. Elderly people are particularly vulnerable to abuse, neglect, or mistreatment because of their living situation, their weakened physical condition, and the fact that they are dependent on whoever is caring for them. Due of the lack of an escape, the caregiver may get quite anxious. Since they are in charge of everything, including doctor appointments, medicine, cleaning, and cooking every day without assistance, people may become irate and vent their anger on the elderly person. According to Conrad, Madelyn, Barth, Edward, and Mazza (2013), both children and elderly face physical abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation. In your opinion, what can be done to decrease the likelihood that vulnerable children and senior adults will fall victim to abuse? The first step in reducing the risk that elderly people and children who are vulnerable would suffer abuse is to locate the financial resources necessary to do the necessary research and develop better regulations. Because abusers of children or elders are unable to stop it, the criminal justice system must hold perpetrators accountable. In the field, there may be projects, interventions, and assessments (Wolfe, D. 2013). Explain the effectiveness of the criminal justice system’s response to child and elder abuse. One thing is knowledge; the criminal justice system has the key to stopping elder and child abuse. The first thing that has to be done is to enhance the laws against elder and child abuse in order to improve the legal aspect. Additionally, the need of justice system understanding is crucial for our youth and elders.

Discuss elements that could be developed to create a holistic plan for restitution for these victims. Coordination (interagency) to construct a restitution program is one of the components that might be implemented to create a comprehensive plan for reparation for victims. Establish the victim's loss and determine if the offender is able to make good on their promise to pay compensation. For the victims, there need to be some sort of automatic payment system. References Conrad, K. J., Iris, M., Riley, B. B. Mensah, E., Mazza, J. (2013). Developing End-User Criteria and a Prototype for an Elder Abuse Assessment System, Document No.: 241390, Award Number: 2009-IJ-CX-0202. Cooper, C & Livingston, G. (2016). Intervening to reduce elder abuse: challenges for research. Age and Ageing 45 (2), 184–185. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afw00 Daigle, L. E. (2018). Victimology: A text/reader (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. Dresser R. Mentally disabled research subjects: The enduring policy issues. Journal of the American Medical Association. 1996;276(1):67–72 Wolfe D. A. (2003) Elder Abuse Intervention: Lessons from Child Abuse and Domestic Violence Initiatives: retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK98783/

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