Developing a rigorous, systematic methodology to identify and categorize elder mistreatment in criminal justice data
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Elder justice: Preventing and intervening in elder mistreatment.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0894-6566,1540-4129
DOI: 10.1080/08946566.2020.1733725