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Violence against the elderly
— a comparative analysis of robbery and assault across age and gender groups | | Author(s) | Ronet Bachman, Heather Dillaway, Mark S Lachs |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 20, no 2, March 1998 |
| Pages | pp 183-198 |
| Keywords | Crime ; Age groups [elderly] ; Older men ; Older women ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Using data from the National Crime Victimization Survey for 1992 through 1994, this article presents an account of robbery and assault victimisations against older Americans, and how they differ across age and gender groups. Differential patterns of risk were identified by contextual characteristics of the victimisation, including place of occurrence, weapon presence, injuries sustained, medical care required, number of offenders, and victim's relationship to offender. Generally, males had higher rates of victimisation for both robbery and assault in all age groups. The exception for this was for robberies against older people; males and females older than 65 had equivalent rates of robbery victimisations. Regarding injury, it was found that older victims, particularly women, were more likely to sustain injuries as the result of a violent attack and more likely to require medical care for these injuries. Age and gender differentials were also found for location of occurrence and victim/offender relationship. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980423402 A |
| Classmark | TWA: BB: BC: BD: 7T |
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