Summary: Older Criminals and Victims

Abstract

This chapter provides a summary of the trends and issues pertaining to the criminal offending of older persons, the criminal victimization of older persons, and the criminal justice response to older offenders. Information pertaining to these topics is presented by authors from several countries. As a result, the reader is able to view the trends and issues that relate to the older criminal offender and older victim of crime from several different perspectives and also note the similarities and differences in crime and victimization of the elderly in different parts of the world.