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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| From Lizzie Borden to Dr. Shipman | |
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| Demography and the criminological agenda | |
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| Private space and public space | |
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| Determinism versus free will | |
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| General reading | |
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| Abuse Versus Crime in Criminological History | |
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| The exclusion of criminology | |
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| Welfare versus justice responses to elder victimisation | |
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| Following child and spouse abuse | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The Mythologies of Elderly Victimisation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Golden Age myth--the modernisation thesis | |
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| The Golden Isles myth--neglect and abuse in comparative perspective | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Stereotyping the Elderly as Victims | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Ideologies--ageism, sexism, and the mythology of the elder victim | |
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| Needs-based definitions | |
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| Rights-based definitions | |
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| Synopsis of Chapters 2 and 3 | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Victimisation in Private and Public Space | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Victimisation in private space | |
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| Victimisation in public space | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Old People and the Fear of Crime | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The problem of fear | |
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| Criticisms of the fear thesis | |
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| Synopsis of Chapters 4 and 5 | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Victimisation in Private Space--the Household and Care Institutions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Victimisation in the private space of the household | |
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| External pressures | |
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| Victimisation in care and nursing institutions | |
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| The victim fights back--strategies of resistance | |
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| Synopsis of Chapter 6 | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Sociological Explanations I: Gender and the Political Economy of Older People | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What's wrong with the abuse explanations | |
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| Feminist criminology and elder abuse | |
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| Elder victimisation--contributions from political economy | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Sociological Explanations II: Organisation, Power, Neutralisation, and Labelling | |
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| Introduction--from context to content | |
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| Exchange and power in organisational conflicts | |
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| Stratification, moral holidays, and strain theory | |
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| Labelling and social constructionism | |
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| Synopsis of Chapters 7 and 8 | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The Elderly in the Criminal Justice Process I: Is there an Elderly Crime Wave? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| An elderly crime wave? | |
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| Social constructionism and the elderly criminal | |
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| Causes of crime by the elderly | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The Elderly in the Criminal Justice Process II: Experience of Arrest and Detention | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Leniency towards the elderly? | |
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| Imprisonment and the squeaky wheel syndrome | |
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| Synopsis of Chapters 9 and 10 | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Conclusion--Towards a Criminology of the Elderly? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The diversity of the elderly | |
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| Welfare versus criminal justice | |
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| Private space versus public space, intimates versus strangers | |
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| From structure to inter-personal relations | |
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| The lack of history | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Author index | |
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| Subject index | |