Here is the most up-to-the-minute interdisciplinary research that has been conducted on older offenders. This scholarly volume highlights the dimensions of the offenses committed by older adults and features empirical research addressing the sentencing alternatives applied to older offenders. Academicians and practitioners also provide much-needed insight into the management and correctional issues that arise with the incarceration of older offenders, including adjustment to prison life, physical and emotional health care, and rehabilitation and/or preparation of the offender for the return to life outside prison.
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Table Of Contents:
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Naming the Offenders
Arrests for Major Crimes: Trends and Patterns for Elderly Offenders
A Comparison of Retiree Criminal Characteristics With Habitual and Nonhabitual Older Offenders From an Urban Population
Aging and Aged in Organized Crime
Part II: Sentencing: Blind Justice?
Defendant's Advanced Age as a Prepotent Status in Criminal Case Disposition and Sanction
The Elderly Offender and Sentencing Leniency
Legal and Social Alternatives in Treating Older Child Sexual Offenders
More Than a Case Number: Older Offenders on Probation
Part III: Institutions: Custody, Care, or Therapy?
Mature Mentally Ill Offenders in California Jails
Prison Environments and Their Impact on Older Citizens
Health Status of the Incarcerated Elderly: Issues and Concerns
The Older and Long Term Inmate Growing Old in the New Jersey Prison System