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APRI Highlights - Summer 2004
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Sean Morgan
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Program Manager and Senior Attorney, White Collar Crime Program
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White Collar Crime Program Offers Training for the Digital Age
The WCCP convened a national leadership conference from June 28-30, 2004, in Washington, D.C., on financial exploitation and abuse of older persons. Prosecutors, law enforcement officers, witness/victim advocates, and adult protective service providers from across the country discussed the challenges in investigating, prosecuting, and educating the public about financial exploitation and elder abuse. Topics discussed at the symposium included: establishing a multi-agency approach to fight exploitation and abuse; elder victim safety; legislative policy; establishing an elder exploitation and abuse prosecution unit; and public education on exploitation and abuse. Ideas and promising practices that emerged from these discussions will soon be available in a monograph from APRI.
The WCCP will offer Wired to Fight Fraud, August 2-4, 2004, in Seattle, WA. This course provides prosecutors with an overview of how telecommunications fraud scams are being perpetrated, approaches to the physical and legal acquisition of electronic and digital evidence, and techniques for working with victims of telecommunications fraud to minimize the impact of these crimes.
Publications available from the WCCP address a wide range of issues pertaining to telecommunications fraud and elder abuse. For more information about the WCCP’s trainings and publications, please contact whitecollar@ndaa-apri.org or call 703-549-4253.
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