Not your usual suspect : older offenders of violence and abuse /

As the average life expectancy continues to rise, the long-held assumption that age is a protective factor against criminal offending and victimisation is being challenged. Recognising that people who commit offences later in life are an overlooked group in criminology, Not Your Usual Suspect is the...

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Other Authors: Bows, Hannah (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
Series:Feminist developments in violence and abuse
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1108/9781800718876
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Hannah Bows
  • Chapter 1. Exploration of the pathway of offending in the later life of older Ghanaian adults / Delali A. Dovie
  • Chapter 2. Elder people's criminality. Analysing patterns of offending in Poland / Justyna Wlodarczyk-Madejska
  • Chapter 3. Dangerous or disregarded: Older women in prison / Michelle Carr
  • Chapter 4. Elderly offenders of juvenile sexual abuse in Nigeria / Richard A. Aborisade
  • Chapter 5. Understanding sexual abuse offending behaviour in elderly: Psychological perspective / Ezgi Ildirim
  • Chapter 6. Resident-to-resident elder aggression in Flemish long-term care homes / Liesbeth De Donder and Claeys Bram
  • Chapter 7. Not ageing out of violence? Older men's biographical narratives of their abuse and violence in intimate relationships with female partners / Claire Bellamy, Margaret Struthers, and Lorraine Green
  • Chapter 8. Intimate partner violence in later life from the male perpetrator's perspective: A UK pilot study of age-related risk and needs / Jeremy Hawksworth
  • Chapter 9. 'Older' offender management? The needs and multi-agency rehabilitation of older probationers / Kyros Hadjisergis
  • Chapter 10. Concluding thoughts / Hannah Bows.