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Older offenders : perspectives in criminology and criminal justice

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

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Additional Authors
  • McCarthy, Belinda Rodgers
  • Langworthy, Robert H.
  • Newman, Donald J.
Description
xxviii, 226 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Older offenders > United States
  • Crime and age
  • Crime and age
  • Older offenders
  • Straffälliger
  • Älterer Mensch
  • United States
  • USA
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [197]-214.
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 0275927342
  • 9780275927349
LCCN
87007147
OCLC
  • ocm16525944
  • 16525944
  • SCSB-1715503
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Princeton University Library