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Elderly in America
— a descriptive study of elder abuse examining National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) Data, 2000-2005 | | Author(s) | Jessie L Krienert, Jeffrey A Walsh, Moriah Turner |
| Journal title | Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, vol 21, no 4, 2009 |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2009 |
| Pages | pp 325-345 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Crime ; Cross national surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Elder abuse is the newest form of intra-familial violence to garner the attention of the public, policy makers, health officials, researchers, and the criminal justice system. Despite evidence that elder abuse is a growing problem, there is little known about the phenomenon because of persistent limitations in the extant empirical work. The present study examined a large cross-national sample of reported incidents (n = 87,422) collected as part of the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), 2000-2005. Addressing limitations in previous works, this research employed a criminal justice oriented definition of elder abuse examining victim, offender, and incident characteristics using chi-square tests and logistic regression to establish baseline findings from a more comprehensive sample of data than previously existed. Results render a baseline profile of victims and abusers and suggest that gender differences prevail throughout elder abuse. This work both corroborates and contrasts past findings of elder abuse research, providing new insights and much needed baseline data. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100226212 A |
| Classmark | QNT: TWA: 3K: 7T |
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