Elder mistreatment is complex, with cases typically requiring integrated responses from social services, medicine, civil law, and criminal justice. Only limited research exists describing elder mistreatment prosecution and its impact. Researchers have not yet examined administrative prosecutorial data to explore mistreatment response, and no standardized analytic approach exists. We developed a rigorous, systematic methodologic approach to identify elder mistreatment cases in prosecutorial data from cases of crimes against victims aged ≥60. To do so, we operationalized elements of the accepted definition of elder mistreatment, including expectation of trust and vulnerability. We also designed an approach to categorize elder mistreatment cases, using the types of charges filed, into: financial exploitation, physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal/emotional/psychological abuse, and neglect. This standardized methodological approach to identify and categorize elder mistreatment cases in prosecution data is an important preliminary step in analyzing this potentially untapped source of useful information about mistreatment response.

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开发严格，系统的方法，以识别和分类刑事司法数据中的老年人虐待。

虐待老人的情况很复杂，案件通常需要社会服务，医学，民法和刑事司法的综合回应。仅存在有限的研究描述了虐待老人的起诉及其影响。研究人员尚未检查行政检察数据以探讨虐待行为，也没有标准化的分析方法。我们开发了一种严谨，系统的方法论方法，以从针对60岁以上受害者的犯罪案件中识别检察数据中的老年人虐待案件。为此，我们实施了公认的虐待老人定义的要素，包括对信任和脆弱性的期望。我们还设计了一种方法，可以使用提起的指控类型将虐待老人的案件分类为：经济剥削，身体虐待，性虐待，言语/情感/心理虐待和忽视。在检控数据中识别和分类老年人虐待案件的这种标准化方法论方法，是分析这一可能未得到利用的关于虐待反应的有用信息来源的重要的初步步骤。