Product Description

The author is a Florida detective recognized as an expert investigator of exploitation crimes who presents 11 shocking and factual investigations. He dispels the myths of this misunderstood crime while providing specific and practical prevention advice.... How to recognize exploitation, expose exploiters and help them to incriminate themselves....Easy legal steps to take to prevent someone from emptying an elder's bank accounts if they should lose mental capacity...How to protect yourself while you still can. Preview the book now.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #734040 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-11
• Released on: 2008-01-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 161 pages

Customer Reviews

An Expert's Insights Into the Inadequacy of Existing Safeguards
I am recommending this book because it confirms what I know from my own experience, and from communicating with numerous others who have shared with me their own experience, namely that the public has been misled about the adequacy of our existing laws. Anyone who doubts this needs to read Chapter 6, where Detective Roubicek provides a first hand account of his role in both (1) thwarting legislation that was subtly worded so as to exempt the perps in most exploitation cases and (2) drafting Florida's current crime statute (825.103) regarding the exploitation of an elderly person or disabled adult.

Another misconception which Detective Roubicek corrects is the notion that exploitation is the same as fraud. While older folks are often victims of fraud, Detective Roubicek emphasizes that "while elderly fraud victims are independent persons with the capacity to give consent, exploitation victims are disabled in some manner and this disability contributes to their victimization." Detective Roubicek describes several cases which could not be prosecuted because of failure to adequately recognize this distinction.

Detective Roubicek makes this most clear at the end of Chapter 5, where he writes "Although many of my exploitation cases ended with arrests, convictions and prison terms, others fell to the wayside because of capacity and consent issues that still plague prosecution efforts today." He also makes this clear at the end of his book, where he acknowledges the practical problems inherent in each of the prevention measures that he mentions. An understanding of these practical problems should lead to better laws, including one which this reviewer recommended in 2005 to delegates to the White House Conference on Aging. Had Detective Roubicek been familiar with such material at the time he published his book, I like to think that he would have mentioned it, but he still points to the need that these issues be addressed over and over in his "true crime" account of a career investigating exploitation crimes. I highly recommend this book!

Excellent, helpful, educational, smooth reading
This book was not only enlightening, it was also entertaining, and captured my attention from beginning to end. BRAVO!

A Totally New Tack...
This author strips away the complexity of financial exploitation and provides an underlying simplicity in the book's introduction. Those who have experienced elderly exploitation directly or indirectly will almost certainly benefit greatly by reading these true crime case files. Good job here.