Adults who Become the Victims of Crime

Abstract

In this chapter we shall be examining the issue of vulnerable adults as victims of crime, focusing on the victim—crime relationship. There is inevitably some common ground with Chapter 6, which focused on protecting vulnerable adults from abuse and harm. The key difference is that, whereas Chapter 6 addressed the role of social services departments and others as preventative and protective agencies, this chapter concentrates on people’s rights as victims of crime and the specific issues that arise when a vulnerable adult is the victim.