- Review the various issues around family violence and its psychological consequences.
- Describe intimate partner violence.
- Describe forensic assessment of violence in the family and between intimate partners, including assessment instruments used.
- Review research on child abuse and its psychological consequences.
- Emphasize the strengths and limitations of human memory in reporting victimization and crime.
- Examine child abduction and its psychological effects.
- Introduce elder abuse and neglect, and review its devastating effects.
