IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aph/ajpbhl/200393122131-2136_2.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Domestic Elder Abuse and the Law

Author

Listed:
  • Jogerst, G.J.
  • Daly, J.M.
  • Brinig, M.F.
  • Dawson, J.D.
  • Schmuch, G.A.
  • Ingram, J.G.

Abstract

Objectives. The authors evaluated the impact of state adult protective service legislation on rates of investigated and substantiated domestic elder abuse. Methods. Data were collected on all domestic elder abuse reports, investigations, and substantiations for each US state and the District of Columbia for 1999. State statutes and regulations pertaining to adult protective services were reviewed. Results. There were 190005 domestic elder abuse reports from 17 states, a rate of 8.6 per 1000 elders; 242430 domestic elder abuse investigations from 47 states, a rate of 5.9; and 102879 substantiations from 35 states, a rate of 2.7. Significantly higher investigation rates were found for states requiring mandatory reporting and tracking of numbers of reports. Conclusions. Domestic elder abuse documentation among states shows substantial differences related to specific aspects of state laws.

Suggested Citation

  • Jogerst, G.J. & Daly, J.M. & Brinig, M.F. & Dawson, J.D. & Schmuch, G.A. & Ingram, J.G., 2003. "Domestic Elder Abuse and the Law," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 93(12), pages 2131-2136.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:2003:93:12:2131-2136_2
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Morgan, Etta & Johnson, Ida & Sigler, Robert, 2006. "Public definitions and endorsement of the criminalization of elder abuse," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 34(3), pages 275-283.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:2003:93:12:2131-2136_2. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Christopher F Baum (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.apha.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.