RT Article
T1 A Profile Study of Elderly Offenders in the Community Criminal Courts of Singapore: Theorizing Geriatric Criminality
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 68
IS 1
SP 85
OP 106
A1 Narayanan, Ganapathy
A1 Sim, Samantha
A1 Chua, Valerie
A1 Kaneson, Vanita
A2 Sim, Samantha
A2 Chua, Valerie
A2 Kaneson, Vanita
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1873102577
AB 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.
K1 Crime
K1 Psychosis
K1 socio-economic
K1 Criminality
K1 geriatric
K1 theorizing
K1 community courts
K1 Singapore
K1 Offenders
K1 Elderly
DO 10.1177/0306624X211058953