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Elderly victimization
— an examination beyond the FBI's index crimes | | Author(s) | Kimberly A McCabe, Sharon S Gregory |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 20, no 3, May 1998 |
| Pages | pp 363-372 |
| Keywords | Crime ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Most of the US research on older people as victims of crime has focused primarily on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBIs) major index crimes of murder, rape, and robbery; however, this restricted approach to the study of crime only depicts a portion of the actual crime against older people. This research was conducted to capture a more encompassing view of older victimisation. The data were obtained from the FBIs National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) in the state of South Carolina. Results of the study suggests that older people are more at risk than are younger segments of the population for crimes of robbery, intimidation, vandalism, and forgery/fraud, with the sex and race of the older victim also associated with specific types of criminal victimisation. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980611406 A |
| Classmark | TWA: 7T |
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