Full Description
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 first collection to assemble research on different forms of violence and abuse perpetrated by individuals predominantly over 60.
Examining intersections of gender, crime and age, this collection highlights how the increase in older people entering the criminal justice system has emphasised the unpreparedness of policies and practices for dealing with this cohort. Moving beyond existing research and policy which has focused primarily on those who are sentenced in later life for crimes they committed as younger adults - so called historic crimes - the chapters pay crucial attention to those who commit offences as long-term, repeat or first-time offenders in later life.
Offering an important contribution for researchers across the criminological, gerontological, feminist and elder abuse fields, Not Your Usual Suspect expands existing research to consider the behaviour and drivers of older offenders, addressing the increasingly important issue of how the needs of this group can be addressed by policy and practice.
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 Włodarczyk-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
