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The feel safe factor
- Author:
- DAVIS Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 24.5.01, 2001, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Under a new scheme, Feelsafe, district nurses are referring potential crime victims to crime prevention officers. Reports on the benefits of reducing patients' anxiety about their safety.
The poor relation: the police and CPS response to crimes against older people
- Authors:
- HM CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE INSPECTORATE, HM INSPECTORATE OF CONSTABULARY AND FIRE & RESCUE SERVICES
- Publishers:
- HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 128
- Place of publication:
- London
The findings of a joint inspection by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) and Her Majesty's Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) of how the police and the CPS respond to crimes against older people. One of the aims of the inspection was to examine the safeguarding arrangements for vulnerable older people. Police have statutory safeguarding duties under the Care Act 2014. The report praised the work of police officers in their initial dealings with older victims of crime, including attending promptly to reports of crime from older victims. However, officers often struggled to deal with some of the complex needs of older people. The report found older people were not always properly safeguarded; referral to victim support services for older people was too inconsistent; and older people were not always offered the support of intermediaries, or helped to give their best evidence, for example by video-recording their evidence or using hearing loops. The report makes recommendations aimed at improving police and CPS practice, and the service provided to victims. (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)
Older people, fear and crime: problems and new directions
- Author:
- MOORE Stephen
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 14(4), December 2010, pp.16-24.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The author critically examines the fear of crime paradox, in which older people are seen as disproportionately concerned about the possibility of becoming a victim, and the explanations and policy responses that have emerged. He suggests that the fear of crime paradox has been based on an over-simplistic analysis of the relationship of crime and age. Older people should not be regarded as a homogeneous group, for example, it is a mistake to categorise 65 year olds with 85 year olds. In addition other factors, including gender, vulnerability, poverty and health should be considered. There has also been inadequate attention paid to the sorts of crimes that older people are more likely to be victims of. The author concludes that there should be a move away from focusing solely on age and crime and that older people should be placed within much broader categories that include people of all ages. For example, there is a need to investigate how crime impacts on people with different standards of income or health and to develop policies accordingly regardless of age. He comments that current policies that seek to reassure older people or to target older people’s property simply maintain the stereotypes of all older people as frail and socially isolated rather than as a diverse category overlapping with other groups in the population.
Excluded older people: Social Exclusion Unit interim report
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Social Exclusion Unit
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 67p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The experience of older age should be a positive one. But whilst many older people enjoy the chance for more leisure, learning new things, or spending time with friends and family, others experience isolation and exclusion. The consultation highlighted three key ways in which respondents say provision needs to improve if older people are to enjoy a better quality of life: joined up services are key; intervening early is important, and investment in low level prevention can reduce costlier interventions later; and older people generally know what they need and want, and they should be involved in the design and – where practicable – the delivery of services. This report is split into three sections: a summary of the issues and challenges; social issues from crime to housing, from transport to employment; and the specific needs of carers, those from minority ethnic communities, and at the way in which support for excluded older people is funded.
Reducing burglary and fear among older people: an evaluation of a Help the Aged and Homesafe Initiative in Plymouth
- Author:
- MAWBY Rob
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 38(1), February 2004, pp.1-20.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Despite their low levels of risk, older people have been targeted by a number of crime reduction initiatives. This article describes an evaluation of one burglary reduction initiative in Plymouth that involved the local Plymouth Homesafe scheme and Help the Aged. The scheme clearly targeted the more vulnerable groups within the community, and clients were extremely positive about the service and its implementation. However, there was little evidence that they expressed lower levels of fear of crime than did older people in general. This leads to a discussion of different levels of vulnerability and the way different subcategories of client perceived and benefited from the scheme.