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Sex Crimes Litigation As Hazardous Duty: Practical Tools For Trauma-Exposed Prosecutors, Defense Counsel, And Paralegals, Evan R. Seamone
Sex Crimes Litigation As Hazardous Duty: Practical Tools For Trauma-Exposed Prosecutors, Defense Counsel, And Paralegals, Evan R. Seamone
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Military prosecutors and defense attorneys must both interact with traumatic case material stemming from victims, offenders, or evidence tied to a sexual offense. The context of the attorney's specific duties makes them susceptible to different types of indirect or "Secondary Traumatic Stress" [STS] stemming from the litigation. At base, STS generically describes the manner in which a person can be traumatized simply from hearing or being exposed to someone else's trauma or implementations that caused it.
Dismantling America’S Largest Sleeper Cell: The Imperative To Treat, Rather Than Merely Punish, Active Duty Offenders With Ptsd Prior To Discharge From The Armed Forces, Evan R. Seamone
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By separating combat veterans with uniquely military discharges that make many ineligible for effective PTSD treatment, the active duty armed forces are creating a class of future offenders, specially trained to be lethal, whose violent acts against themselves, their families, and the public collectively amass more casualties, incur more costs, and drain more resources in the homeland than the underlying traumatic episode in the war zone. The obligation to treat these offenders and help them successfully transition to civilian society with preserved VA benefits before discharge is not merely a laudatory goal of therapeutic jurisprudence, but a mandate under the …