A Profile Study of Elderly Offenders in the Community Criminal Courts of Singapore
Theorizing Geriatric Criminality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21513537 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Ganapathy (0000-0001-6047-2059, National University of Singapore, corresponding author), Samantha Sim (State Courts Centre for Specialist Services, Singapore), Valerie Chua (State Courts Centre for Specialist Services, Singapore), Vanita Kaneson (State Courts Centre for Specialist Services, Singapore) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-106 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-624X • E-ISSN: 1552-6933 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0306624x211058953 |
| PMID | 34802297 |
| OpenAlex | W3214755012 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 42 |
This research, using data from the Community Criminal Courts where a majority of elderly offenders are tried and sentenced, investigates the socio-economic profile of elderly offenders and the factors influencing their criminal motivation in Singapore. It revisits conceptualizations of offending in older age which until now has received scant attention even in Asian societies where ties to conventional institutions are thought to be “protective.” The majority of elderly offenders in this study were “revolving door prisoners” and were never in possession of any efficacious social capital that would have prevented them from committing a crime or enabled their re-entry process, a problem compounded by the study’s findings that almost 70% of the sampled offenders had experienced mental health issues. This would have spelled adverse consequences for their desistance and, conversely, their recidivist behavior, a finding that was consistent with many other studies that had examined the association between psychosis and crime
Criminal behavior · Mental health · Occupational safety and health · Psychosis · Social capital · Suicide prevention · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
Family Violence and Criminal Justice
Making good
Bowling alone
Neoliberal Morality in Singapore
Class Inequality in the Global City
Inequality and Crime
Determinants on the Number of Children among Married Women in Korea
The pains of desistance
Penal policy and political economy
Older sex offenders – managing risk in the community from a policing perspective
Gender Differences in Desistance From Crime
Crime Rate and Social Integration The Impact of Metropolitan Mobility
Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency
Analysis and counter‐policies on elderly criminals in Korea
Deindustrialization, Disadvantage and Suicide among Young Black Males
Age and the Distribution of Crime
Urban Black Violence
Age, Crime, and Social Explanation
Age and the Explanation of Crime
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |