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APS investigation across four types of elder maltreatment
- Authors:
- JACKSON Shelly L., HAFEMEISTER Thomas L.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 14(2), 2012, pp.82-92.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This study investigated aspects of adult protective services (APS) investigation of, and response to, reported elder maltreatment in Virginia, United States. Data were collected from in-depth interviews with 71 APS caseworkers and 55 of the corresponding elderly victims who experienced elder maltreatment, and a state-wide database that contained 2,142 substantiated cases of elder abuse. Many aspects of the APS investigation and response differed by the type of maltreatment involved. While elderly victims were generally cooperative and satisfied with the APS intervention, 38% would have preferred APS not to investigate their case. Elderly clients responded differentially to offers of assistance, depending on the type of abuse involved, with victims of physical abuse most likely to refuse services. The authors concluded that new approaches may be required for intervening in physical abuse cases, including collaborations between APS and domestic violence advocates and the inclusion of services for perpetrators. Implications for future research are presented.
Spotlight on elder abuse as reported by the Russian mass media
- Author:
- PUCHKOV Pavel
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 13(1), February 2011, pp.27-35.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This paper analyses the phenomenon of elder abuse in Russia using information gathered from Russian newspapers. The data were gathered through a review of the four local and national periodical newspapers over a 10-year period from 1998 to 2008. The articles were subjected to in-depth content. The overall study purpose was to determine the facts on the current situation of elder abuse in families in Russia. Six hundred and forty six articles were found relating to elder abuse, representing just 9.5% of reported crime, with crimes including physical abuse, theft, rape, murder and threats. Almost all cases of crime were perpetrated in the home, usually by someone who was known. Overall, the number of crimes reported in newspapers was small compared to other crimes, and abuse by family members was rarely mentioned. The author concludes that the reporting in mass media is effectively pushing gerontological issues towards the periphery of social problems, a problem that needs redressing.
Guidance on prosecuting crimes against older people
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Crown Prosecution Service
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Crown Prosecution Service
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has already demonstrated their commitment to diversity and to better protecting the vulnerable. This policy goes one step further and explains exactly how the CPS will apply best practice, protect victims and witnesses and prosecute this abhorrent crime effective. The issues addressed in the policy include how the CPS will support older people as victims and witnesses of crime; what special measures - such as screens in court or video links to their home - are available; what happens if the victim withdraws support or no longer wishes to give evidence and continuing a case where that has happened. The policy also summarises some of the wide and complex range of crimes which older people may experience.
Elderly sexual abuse: an examination of the criminal event
- Authors:
- CHOPIN Julien, BEAUREGARD Eric
- Journal article citation:
- Sexual Abuse a Journal of Research and Treatment, 32(6), 2020, pp.706-726.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The current study investigates the modus operandi specificities for the sexual abuse against the elderly. A comparison between sex crimes against adult and elderly victims is conducted following the criminal event approach. The comparison is based on the precrime, crime, and postcrime phases of the modus operandi, operationalized through 53 variables. The sample comes from a French national police database including a total of 1,829 cases - including 130 cases of elderly sexual abuse and 1,699 cases of sexual abuse against victims aged between 18 and 45 years. Bivariate and multivariate analyses are performed to examine the differences in the two groups. Several differences are observed between the two modus operandi. Findings indicate that the precrime phase is the most important to explain these differences, and this phase of the criminal event affects the rest of the decisions taken during the crime and postcrime phases. Specifically, the authors have highlighted that sexual crimes against the elderly are more violent and occur more often in the victim’s residence. This study suggests that offenders targeting the elderly use specific crime characteristics, and this allows to highlight practical implications in terms of investigation and offender management. (Edited publisher abstract)
Ageing, crime and society
- Author:
- WAHIDIN Azrini
- Publisher:
- Willan
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 276p.
- Place of publication:
- Cullompton
The relationship between ageing and crime has been a much neglected issue, the focus rather being on youth and crime. This book aims to redress this imbalance, bringing together a group of leading authorities to address key issues on the subject of crime and ageing. It considers older people as both victims and perpetrators of crime, and also examines the conditions faced by older prisoners. The book draws upon both criminology and gerontology, as well as sociology and social policy, to help understand the complex but under-studied relationship that older men and women have with crime. The book seeks to re-theorize both crime and ageing to expose how violence against the aged may be normalized within families and care homes, and draws links with empirical research and the policy making process in relation to the aged as both victims and offenders. Effective preventive strategies for both theft and violence in public and private spheres are identified, as well as bespoke programmes for older people in the criminal justice system. The book makes an argument for the concept of age to be added to the more familiar analytic categories of gender, race and class in relation to wider understanding of crime and penal policy.
Older people, crime and justice
- Author:
- SCHULLER Nina
- Journal article citation:
- Community Safety Journal, 5(4), October 2006, pp.37-43.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This article considers the possible impacts of ageist stereotypes of older people on community safety thinking and delivery, including perceptions of older people's levels of fear of crime, risk of victimisation, and offending behaviour. It also explores the possible associations between inter-generational relationships and anti-social behaviour, and how elder abuse is positioned in comparison to other forms of abuse and domestic violence.
Elder abuse in nursing homes: the theft of patients possessions
- Author:
- HARRIS Diane K.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 10(3/4), 1999, pp.141-151.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article discusses the nature of this type of abuse and explores some theoretical explanations for it. In addition, some theft-reducing techniques ranging from simple target hardening to formal and informal surveillance are suggested.
Adult protective services and victim services: a review of the literature to increase understanding between these two fields
- Author:
- JACKSON Shelly L.
- Journal article citation:
- Aggression and Violent Behavior, 34, 2017, p.214–227.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Adult protective services (APS) is designated in each state to respond to elder abuse. As elder abuse is increasingly conceptualised as a crime, and victim services expands to encompass victims of elder abuse, these two fields will increasingly cross paths. The fields of APS and victim services are each guided by federal legislation, although the path to that legislation differed for each field. The historical development of each field helps to explain the existence of a sometimes challenging relationship between these two fields. A literature review was undertaken to compare these two fields across three domains: 1) the service providers, 2) the recipients of those services, and 3) how a case typically flows from reporting to outcomes. Four areas of possible contention were identified: mandatory reporting, APS investigation, cognitive capacity of victims, and involuntary interventions. It is anticipated that by illuminating these differences and providing an explanation for them, some tension between the fields may be assuaged. This article concludes, however, that in the myriad other ways in which comparisons were made, no meaningful differences emerged. Increasing an understanding of each other's field is intended to facilitate building relationships between these two fields, with the ultimate goal of benefiting victims. (Publisher abstract)
Elder abuse is a crime: now let's make it one
- Author:
- ACTION ON ELDER ABUSE
- Publisher:
- Action On Elder Abuse
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 79
- Place of publication:
- London
Sets out the arguments as to why an aggravated offence of elder abuse is needed. Elder abuse involves physical assault, sexual assault and harassment, coercion, threats and intimidation, theft and fraud, and neglect. Despite the serious nature of offences, they are labelled ‘abuse’ rather than crimes, or ‘poor practice’ in care homes, or ‘serious incidents’ in hospitals. Between 500,000 and 800,000 older people are subject to abuse and/or neglect within communities in the UK each year and yet various statutory bodies are failing older people by not having recording and monitoring measures in place for incidents of elder abuse. The report argues that existing laws to protect older people from abuse and prosecute perpetrators are not strong enough and calls for the introduction of elder abuse legislation in the UK that would introduce: a criminal offence of elder abuse; mandatory reporting of elder abuse; a crime of theft or fraud of an older person; a court order to prevent further abuse; a power to access and speak to a potential victim of elder abuse, the general right of access by family and friends, and wrongful isolation. (Edited publisher abstract)
Care professionals' understanding of the new criminal offences created by the Mental Capacity Act 2005
- Authors:
- MANTHORPE Jill, SAMSI Kritika
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 30(4), 2015, pp.384-392.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Objectives: Implemented in 2007, the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 codified decision-making for adults unable to make decisions for themselves in England and Wales. Among other changes, two new offences of wilful neglect and ill-treatment were created under Section 44. This study explored how the MCA was being implemented in community-based dementia care, focusing on frontline practice. Method: Using qualitative longitudinal methodology, the authors interviewed 279 practitioners, in the London and South-East area of England, two or three times over 3 years. A framework analysis to identify and delineate recurrent themes was applied. Results: Views of the new offences were positive overall, but understanding ranged from partial to non-existent among some participants. Conclusions: Clinicians may be increasingly called upon to provide advice on whether an alleged victim or perpetrator lacks decision-making capacity in cases of suspected elder abuse. They need to be aware of the new criminal offences to ensure that people with dementia, among others, are not abused and that abusers are brought to account. (Edited publisher abstract)