title: Victims of violent crime.
abstract: Violence is the leading cause of serious facial injuries in the UK. This paper outlines how and why the police and hospitals should, together, be doing more to protect the increasing numbers of victims. This paper is reproduced by kind permission of the author and the publishers of Policing Today, which is the journal of the Association of Chief Police Officers of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Vol 3, Issue 2, June 1997. The majority of studies described in this paper were carried out by Professor Shepherd's research team at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. Professor Shepherd chaired the Victim Support working party which produced the national guidelines 'Treating victims of crime', circulated in 1995 to all family doctors and A & E departments in the UK.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shepherd
mesh_terms: D019548:Crime Victims / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006291:Health Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology; D014754:Violence / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data