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Older persons

Further information

• Full report: The victimisation of older Australians

Charts/fact sheets

• Consumer fraud lower for older Australians
• Risk and fear of fraud among older people

Other publications and data sources

• Advocare's Speak Out Survey "SOS" on elder abuse (PDF 218kB)
  Abuse Prevention Program, Advocare Inc. 2003
• Elder abuse in Western Australia 2002 (PDF 178kB)
  Western Australia Department for Community Development - Seniors' Interests, survey report, 2002
• Older people and consumer fraud
  Glenn Muscat, Marianne James and Adam Graycar, 2002
• The victimisation of older Australians
  Carlos Carcach, Adam Graycar and Glenn Muscat, 2001
• Preventing crime against older Australians
  Marianne James and Adam Graycar, 2000
• Two lives, two worlds: older people and domestic violence, volumne 2 (PDF 298kB)
  Morgan Disney & Associates with Leigh Cupitt and Associates and Council on the Ageing. Office of the Status of Women, Partnerships Against Domestic Violence project, 2000
• Fraud and financial abuse of older persons
  Russell G Smith, 1999
• Homicide and older people in Australia
  Carlos Carcach, Marianne James and P N Grabosky, 1998

• International Crime Victim Surveys 2004
  Reports from the Australian component of the ICVS, undertaken by the Australian Institute of Criminology
• The Australian component of the 2000 International Crime Victims Survey (ICVS)
  Carlos Carcach and Toni Makkai, 2003
• International Crime Victims Surveys | ICVS publications
  UNODC and UNICRI. Further information and reports from previous surveys
• Criminal victimisation in seventeen industrialised countries : key-findings from the 2000 international Crime Victims Survey
  J N van Kesteren, P Mayhew and P Nieuwbeerta. Dutch Ministry of Justice, 2000
• Recorded crime - victims, Australia
  Australian Bureau of Statistics. Annual publication of national crime statistics relating to victims of a selected range of offences
• Crime and safety, Australia
  Australian Bureau of Statistics. Also available: Crime and safety, New South Wales, Crime and safety, South Australia, Crime and safety, Western Australia

Recent publications

• Older prisoners—A challenge for Australian corrections
  23 August 2011
• Older people and credit card fraud
  04 August 2007
• Older Australians in prison
  29 May 2007
• Risk and fear of fraud among older people
  06 June 2006
• Preventing crime against older Australians
  12 January 2005
• A safe and secure environment for older Australians
  04 June 2003
• Older people and consumer fraud
  04 March 2002
• Victimisation rate remains lower for older Australians
  23 October 2001
• The victimisation of older Australians
  04 June 2001
• Preventing crime against older Australians
  04 June 2000
• Substitute decision making and older people
  04 December 1999
• Elderly inmates: issues for Australia
  04 May 1999
• Abuse of older people: crime or family dynamics?
  04 May 1999
• Homicide and older people in Australia
  04 November 1998
• Crime prevention for older Australians
  01 January 1993

Recent events

• Crime and older people
  25 February 1993