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The Costs of Elderly Victimization

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Crime and Victimization of the Elderly

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What occurs in the aftermath of criminal vicitmization? How do individuals assess the problems that Victimization has created for them and how do they cope with these problems? Thus far in our examination of criminal victimization of the elderly we have focused upon the determinants and the content of victimization experiences. We have discussed the rates of such crimes and their distributional properties but we have not been concerned with the consequences which flow from them. This is the principal issue considered in the present chapter.

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Chapter Nine: Recommended Readings

  • Burt, M.R. and B.L. Katz 1985 Rape, Robbery and Burglary: Responses to Actual and Feared Criminal Victimization with Special Focus on Women and the Elderly. Victimology, 10:325–358.

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  1. School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, V5A 1S6, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

    Ezzat A. Fattah

  2. Department of Sociology, Queen’s University, K7L 3N6, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

    Vincent F. Sacco

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Fattah, E.A., Sacco, V.F. (1989). The Costs of Elderly Victimization. In: Crime and Victimization of the Elderly. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8888-3_9

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