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HealthDay News via U.S. News & World Report
Lesbian, gay and bisexual teens are far more likely than their straight peers to suffer physical and/or sexual violence, new research warns.
The warning stems from surveys of nearly 29,000 teens, aged 14 to 18, conducted in 2015 and 2017 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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March 20, 2020
Service Animals and the Medical Forensic Exam
When a survivor of sexual assault presents to a healthcare facility for a medical forensic exam, and has a service animal - are you prepared to provide care to that patient? This webinar will; 1. Increase familiarity with survivors with disabilities and their use of service animals. 2. Analyze the legal rights of service animal handlers 3. Consider the complexities of working with survivors who have service animals 4. Outline some adaptations that might be helpful to employ in the exam process.
April 27, 2020
Support Animals and Service Animals are different?
Therapy and emotional support animals are different from service animals. There are differences in the roles they perform and the legal protections that are in place. How can you tell the difference? What impact can this have on the survivor? What policies should your program have in place to address both types of animals?
May 8, 2020
Interpreting Toxicology and Alcohol/Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault
Forensic Nurse Examiners (FNEs)/Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) receive general training on the basics of toxicology testing, but often lack understanding of the physiology of intoxication, the absorption, distribution, and excretion of alcohol and drugs from the body, the effects of proper education delivered to patients, and the associated costs to conduct toxicology testing. Join us for a 90-minute webinar to learn more!.
Los Angeles Times
In times of natural disasters and great social upheaval — Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, for example — the systems we’ve created to aid domestic violence victims can get easily overwhelmed. Nurses qualified to do forensic exams are already being pulled into more general care or into emergency rooms. At the same time, those nurses tend to be women. They are more likely than men to be caring for aging parents. They are more likely to shoulder childcare burdens. And in this moment, many of them — like me — have children who are now home from school.
In communities across Southern California and throughout the country, coronavirus fears have driven an increase in gun and tactical body armor sales. And the research is unequivocal: guns in the home of an abuser increase the chances of homicide by at least five times.
All of this is happening in a country where domestic violence homicides have steadily risen since 2010 and, in fact, have spiked since 2017.
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UTA
The term intimate partner violence is used to describe situations where a current or former partner or spouse causes harm to their significant other via physical, sexual and psychological violence. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates one in four women and nearly one in 10 men have experienced IPV during their lifetime.
Rachel Voth Schrag, a domestic violence scholar and assistant professor in The University of Texas at Arlington’s School of Social Work, and UTA doctoral students Kristen E. Ravi and Sarah R. Robinson have published research focusing on the role of social support in the link between economic abuse—a distinct type of IPV—and economic hardship.
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Naked Security by Sophos
A UK inquiry into child sexual abuse facilitated by the internet has recommended that the government require apps to pre-screen images before publishing them, in order to tackle “an explosion” in images of child sex abuse. While most apps and platforms require users (of non-kid-specific services) to be at least 13, their lackluster age verification is also undermining children’s safety online, the inquiry says.
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Info Security Magazine
Human traffickers are still recruiting fresh victims via social media and online dating platforms, according to a new warning issued by America's Federal Bureau of Investigation.
In a public service announcement, the FBI warned the public to be wary when arranging to meet someone they have met online in person.
Human traffickers use the lure of sex, romance, and increasingly of employment to ensnare online victims, setting up fake dates and making what appear to be legitimate jobs offers.
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VCU
Alcohol use disorder is strongly associated with suicide risk, according to a Virginia Commonwealth University-led study published March 12 in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
“[Alcohol use disorder] is a potent risk factor for suicide, with a substantial association persisting after accounting for confounding factors,” concluded the study, conducted by lead author Alexis Edwards, Ph.D., at VCU. “These findings underscore the impact of AUD on suicide risk, even in the context of other mental illness, and implicate the time frame shortly after a medical or criminal AUD registration as critical for efforts to reduce alcohol-related suicide.”
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Cranfield University via PhysOrg
Research at Cranfield Forensic Institute has found that using 3D printed models to present evidence in court cases can help to improve a jury's understanding of technical language.
The study—conducted with mock jurors—found that understanding of technical language used within a courtroom improved to 94 percent when 3-D printed models were presented, compared to 79 percent with photographic images.
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Scienmag
Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered that Drosophila flies lose long-term memory of a traumatic event when kept in the dark, the first confirmation of environmental light playing a role in LTM maintenance. The team also identified the specific molecular mechanism responsible for this effect. LTMs are notoriously difficult to erase; this work may lead to novel treatments for sufferers of trauma, perhaps even the erasure of life-altering traumatic memories.
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U.S. Department of Transportation
On March 16, 2020, the Task Force submitted a report to the Department’s Aviation Consumer Protection Advisory Committee on awareness, training, reporting, and data collection regarding incidents of sexual misconduct by passengers onboard commercial aircraft.
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Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (FVB) via Medical Xpress
Similar to humans, wild animals' reaction to disturbance is accompanied by releasing hormones, including cortisol. To understand the impact of various stress factors on wildlife—for example, competition for food, encounters with predators, or changing environmental conditions—scientists first need to determine the baseline levels of relevant hormones for each species. Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) now report possible pitfalls of the commonly used hormone analysis method that overestimate concentrations of cortisol, and thus lead to overstated conclusions. They investigated whether glucocorticoid hormones deposited in animal hair can be reliable biomarkers to indicate the impact of disturbances.
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CNN
When people hear the word chlamydia, they usually think about sexually transmitted infections.
And it's true that the specific bacteria that causes chlamydia typically depend on interactions with other organisms to survive.
So when a team of researchers discovered several new chlamydia-related species deep below the Arctic Ocean, in a place with no oxygen and without an apparent host organism, they were surprised.
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