Cathleen Burnett

Older Offenders

Current Trends

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 451g
• ISBN-13: 9780866568067
• ISBN-10: 0866568069
• Artikelnr.: 21665537

Autorenporträt

Burnett, Cathleen

Inhaltsangabe

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