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The Office of Victims of Crime released a series of resources for criminal justice professionals to utilize when dealing with the growing trend of elder abuse.

Resources include: information for court and court personnel, resources for law enforcement and community correction officers.

Access the resources here.

Use the Crime Report for more information on Elder Abuse.

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A new report from the Office of the Inspector General finds that the FBI has a backlog of more than 3,200 forensic  DNA cases. These specific labs evaluate forensic DNA collected from crime scenes and victims.

Read the report here.

Use the Crime Report for more information on crime labs.

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I recently heard a hopeful story about a distressing subject—child sex trafficking. A teenage girl, a recent immigrant, had suddenly disappeared from the community center she used to visit, and a social worker set out to find out what had happened to her. The social worker found out the girl had been kidnapped and forced into sex trafficking, and was being raped as many as 25 times a day. The community center worked with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) to have the traffickers (who included the girl’s mother) arrested and prosecuted and the girl placed in foster care.

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A new study study using data  from FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports from years 2000– 2007, explored the effect of financial loss on familial homicide.  In the report, “Social Structure and Family Homicides,” researchers found a strong link between economic deprivation and family homicide and  were stronger for intimate partner homicides and filicides.

Read the report here.

Use the Crime Report for more information on homicides.

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