Randell Alexander & Mary Case 
Child Fatality Review 
An Interdisciplinary Guide and Photographic Reference

832 pages, 643 images, 73 contributors


Child Fatality Review is designed to serve CFR team members, potential team members, and interested nonmembers as the only text they will need on child death review. It is the first and only text available that is devoted to the child fatality review (CFR) process. The title details common types of child fatalities for professionals to use as a reference, including sections devoted to review procedures, the roles of each team member, and full-color photographs of various causes of child death and manners of death.

While this illustrated text is an ideal tool for anyone who works on or with a child fatality review team, it is also a reference asset to any medical library. In the arena of education,
Child Fatality Review is a valuable teaching tool in university social-work classes or law enforcement teaching facilities.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Overview

2. Epidemiology of Child Death

3. The Homicides of Children and Youth

4. Homicides: Case Studies

5. Perinatal Mortality Review: The Iowa Model

6. Perinatal Deaths: Case Studies

7. SIDS: A Pathologist’s Perspective

8. Sudden Unexplained Infant Death: Case Studies

9. Physical Abuse

10. Physical Abuse: Case Studies

11. Fatal Child Neglect

12. Neglect: Case Studies

13. Nonabusive Injuries

14. Nonabusive Injuries: Case Studies

15. Lightning and Lightning Injuries

16. Examining Youth Suicides: The Suicide Review Team

17. Suicides: Case Studies

18. Burn Injuries in Child Fatality Review

19. Burn Injuries: Case Studies

20. Drowning in Child Fatality Review

21. Drowning: Case Studies

22. Childhood Cancers and Blood Disorders

23. Congenital Defects and Genetic Disorders

24. Child Fatality Due to Infectious Diseases

25. International Child Fatality Review Teams

26. Effective Models of Review

27. Criminal and Civil Jurisdiction in Indian Country

28. Military Approaches to Child Fatality Review

29. Military Approaches: Case Studies

30. Coming of Age: Child Death Review in America

31. Child Death Review Teams: Examples and Overview

32. Issues, Problems, and Considerations

33. The Role of Child Abuse Pediatricians

34. The Medicolegal Death Investigator

35. The Role of Coroners

36. Forensic Pathology in the US and UK

37. Forensic Autopsy Procedure

38. Imaging of Childhood Fatality Caused by Child Abuse

39. Pediatric Ophthalmology

40. Law Enforcement Investigation of Child Fatalities

41. Child Death Specialist: Case Studies

42. The Role of Law Enforcement

43. The Role of the Prosecutors

44. The Role of Child Protection

45. The Role of Mental Health Professionals

46. Intimate Partner Violence

47. The Grieving Process and Family Support

48. Preventing Future Deaths

49. Protection of Children by Licensed Childcare Centers

50. Child Death Review Team Recommendations

51. Vision for the Future

Über den Autor

Mary Case is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia and the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. She completed her residency training in pathology at the Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center and is board certified in anatomical pathology, neuropathology, and forensic pathology. In addition to being a professor of pathology and codirector of the Division of Forensic Pathology at St. Louis University Health Sciences Center, Dr. Case serves as chief medical examiner for the cities of St. Louis and St. Charles, and Jefferson and Franklin Counties. Her primary practice is forensic pathology, and her areas of special interest are childrens‘ injuries and head trauma.