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Child Abuse, a Post-mortem Forensic Perspective

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Child abuse is defined by the WHO as all forms of physical and/or emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect or negligent treatment or commercial or other exploitation, resulting in actual or potential harm to the child’s health, survival, development or dignity in the context of a relationship of responsibility, trust or power (World Health Organisation 2016). It is a world-wide problem that affects all societal levels and in its most severe form can result in the death of a child. This chapter will discuss and explain child abuse from a forensic point of view in post-mortem imaging.

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    Rick R. van Rijn

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    Rick R. van Rijn

  3. Department of Radiology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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  4. Department of Forensic Medicine, Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine Southbank, Southbank, Australia

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  5. Department of Medical Imaging, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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van Rijn, R.R., Robben, S.G.F., Fronczek, J., Klein, W.M. (2022). Child Abuse, a Post-mortem Forensic Perspective. In: Dedouit, F., Yen, K., Heinze, S. (eds) Forensic Imaging. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83352-7_9

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