Crime and criminal justice statistics
Victims of crime : older persons
Selected crime victimisation rates for people aged 65 years and over, compared with total population
Source: Australian Institute of Criminology 2001. Victimisation rate remains lower for older Australians. Crime facts info no. 10, 23 October. http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/cfi/cfi010.html
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
- The risk of criminal victimisation for older people
Other publications and data sources
- A safe and secure environment for older Australians
Marianne James, Adam Graycar and Pat Mayhew, 2003 - 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
Related links
- Topic: Older people and crime