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Additional authors

1. Nijhar, Preet.
2. Nijhar, Preeti.

Description

1. vii, 191 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

1. This book examines and analyses the experiences of older people as both victims and perpetrators of crime ; also addresses the experiences of elderly people in the criminal justice process - the offences to which they are prone, and the implications for penal policy of an increase in the elderly penal population.

Subject

1. Older people > Abuse of
2. Older offenders
3. Older people > Crimes against

Contents

1. Abuse versus crime in criminological history -- The mythologies of elderly victimisation -- Sterotyping the elderly as victims -- Victimisation in private and public space -- Old people and the fear of crime -- Victimisation in private space -- the household and care institutions -- Sociological explanations I: gender and the political economy of older people -- Sociological explanations II: organisation, power, neutralisation, and labelling -- The elderly in the criminal justice process I: is there an elderly crime wave? -- The elderly in the criminal justice process II: experience of arrest and detention -- Conclusion -- towards a criminology of the elderly?

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-176) and indexes.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain