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Older offenders : perspectives in criminology and criminal justice

Title
  1. Older offenders : perspectives in criminology and criminal justice / edited by Belinda McCarthy and Robert Langworthy ; foreword by Donald J. Newman.
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  1. New York : Praeger, 1988.

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Additional authors
  1. McCarthy, Belinda Rodgers
  2. Langworthy, Robert H.
  3. Newman, Donald J.
Description
  1. xxviii, 226 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  1. Older offenders > United States
  2. Crime and age
  3. Crime and age
  4. Older offenders
  5. Straffälliger
  6. Älterer Mensch
  7. United States
  8. USA
Contents
  1. Introduction : elderly crime and the criminal justice system response : conceptualizing the problem / Belinda McCarthy, Robert Langworthy -- Elderly crime : fact and artifact / Craig J. Forsyth, Robert Gramling -- Elderly offenders : a review of previous research / Kenneth E. Gewerth -- Theoretical perspectives on deviant behavior among the elderly / Ronald L. Akers, Anthony J. La Greca, Christine Sellers -- Alcohol, contact with the legal system, and illegal behavior among the elderly / Ronald L. Akers, Anthony J. La Greca -- Homicide among the elderly : analysis of the victim/assailant relationship / Peter C. Kratcoski, Donald B. Walker -- Property crime and the elderly offender : a theoretical and empirical analysis, 1964-1984 / Donald J. Bachand, George A. Chressanthis -- Police disposition of arrests : an exploratory study of the treatment of the older offender / Robert Langworthy, Belinda McCarthy -- The role of the elderly defendant in the criminal court : full-dress adversary or reluctant penitant? / Gary Feinberg -- The severity of sentencing : do federal judges really go easier on elderly felons in plea-bargaining negotiations compared with their younger counterparts? / Dean J. Champion -- Care for elderly inmates : conflicting concerns and purposes in prisons / Elmer H. Johnson -- The concerns of older inmates in a minimum prison setting / Lincoln J. Fry -- Factors affecting the adjustment of elderly inmates to prison / Michael J. Sabath, Ernest L. Cowles.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. [197]-214.