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Warning signs present in 1 in 3 homicides of intimate partners, CBC investigation finds
CBC News
More than one in three people accused of intimate-partner homicide demonstrated at least one warning sign prior to the killing, according to a CBC News investigation.
The finding is one of dozens from Deadly Relationships, a sweeping, 16-month CBC News analysis of intimate-partner homicides across Canada between January 2015 and June 2020.
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.FORENSIC NURSES UPDATES
NEW! Speak Up. Speak Out. Join Us for Advocacy Day 2022!
Join the International Association of Forensic Nurses in Washington DC (or virtually) for our annual Advocacy Day. This free, members-only training is included as a perk of membership! Come network with other forensic nurses, build your leadership skills, meet your Congressional representatives, and influence decisions that impact the future of forensic nursing. Register today.
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Have You Heard About the New ISAAC Podcast?
The Indigenous Sexual Assault and Abuse Clearinghouse (ISAAC) team at IAFN has created a podcast to highlight issues relating to sexual assault of Indigenous peoples. Follow along as host Blaze Bell conducts insightful interviews with professionals responding to and within the tribal community. Start listening today!
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.INDUSTRY NEWS
Medical examiners and coroners bear heavy burden during the COVID-19 pandemic and often feel invisible and unsupported
KRQE-FM
“We stopped doing heads.” It was the second time I’d heard a medical examiner say this while I was studying how the roles of medical examiners and coroners have changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A medical examiner from Ohio explained to me that opening a skull is one of the most dangerous parts of an autopsy in the COVID-19 era. This is because the kind of saw often used during autopsies has a beating motion that produces aerosols – among the primary modes of transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The medical examiner explained that his office would not open a skull unless absolutely necessary for the exam and then would use a high-powered vacuum to reduce particle spread from the process.
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Violence increased most in marginalized neighborhoods early in the COVID-19 pandemic
UC Davis Health
During the first five months of the pandemic in 2020, low-income communities of color experienced significantly greater increases in firearm violence, homicides and assaults compared to more affluent, white neighborhoods. Those are the findings of a new study from the Violence Prevention Research Program at UC Davis.
The research was published in the American Journal of Public Health.
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Childhood trauma increases risk of opioid abuse
UGA Today
Young adults who experienced trauma in childhood are more at risk for misusing prescription opioids, according to new research from the University of Georgia.
The study, which was recently published in the Journal of American College Health, supports arguments to expand opioid risk screeners to include adverse childhood experiences.
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The economic and social cost of contact child sexual abuse
Gov.uk
This report provides an estimate of the financial and non-financial (monetized) costs relating to all children who began to experience contact sexual abuse, or who continued to experience contact sexual abuse, in England and Wales in the year ending 31st March 2019. This is estimated to be at least £10.1 billion. This estimate includes the costs of this cohort being victimized in previous and future years, in addition to lifetime consequences as a result of experiencing child sexual abuse. It should be noted that due to the way some costs are incurred over a victim’s lifetime this cannot be used as an annual or an in-year cost.
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Legislator pushes for law requiring Illinois hospitals to report all assaults to police
ProPublica
An Illinois lawmaker said she will propose legislation to require hospital employees to report suspected patient-on-patient sexual assaults to law enforcement.
The proposal, from State Sen. Julie Morrison, a Lake Forest Democrat, was prompted by a ProPublica investigation that found that Roseland Community Hospital officials failed to report a possible sexual assault of a patient in its psychiatric ward, even though it was captured on surveillance video.
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Forensic science is unlocking the mysteries of fatal lightning strikes
The Conversation via PhysOrg
Lightning is one of the most powerful sources of energy in the natural environment. As anyone who has spent time in Johannesburg during the South African summer will attest, there is nothing as spectacular as a Highveld thunderstorm at the end of a long, hot day: the scent of petrichor, torrents of cooling rain, booms of thunder and great spears of lightning across the sky.
These storms are awe inspiring—but also dangerous to people, animals and the built environment. African countries, among them Zambia and Uganda, have some of the highest lightning fatality rates in the world. In South Africa, more than 250 people are killed by lightning annually.
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