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The older prisoner — criminal and psychological characteristics
Author(s)	Fran E Teller, Robert J Howell
Corporate Author	American Society of Criminology
Journal title	Criminology, vol 18, no 4, February 1981
Pages	pp 549-555
Keywords	Prisoners ; Crime ; Older men ; Males ; Mental health [elderly] ; Comparison ; United States of America.
Annotation	Comparisons were made between 92 male prisoners aged over 50, and 539 younger male prisoners (aged under 50) at Utah State Prison, and between groups of first and multiply incarcerated older and younger inmates. Older prisoners had committed more crimes against the person, fewer property crimes, were older at first arrest, and were less socially deviant, impulsive and hostile. Older inmates imprisoned for the first time were more likely to have engaged in crimes of violence, were less involved in a criminal way of life, and were the best adjusted of all the groups. Multiply incarcerated older inmates were found to resemble the younger inmates in terms of a criminal way of life, and did not differ from their younger counterparts in their adjustment. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-011107203 A
Classmark	TGF: TWA: BC: SG: D: 48: 7T *
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