Main description:

1. While previous books have offered social work perspectives or research on the victims of such crimes, this is the first to offer a criminological typology of the offenders.
2. This book connects academic research to practice, considering the implications for law enforcement, investigation and prevention.

Contents:

Introduction: Elderly sexual abuse: Victimization proneness and vulnerability 1.Understanding elderly sexual abuse from a criminological approach 2.Elderly sexual abuse: Description and unusual aspects 3.Elderly victims: A different crime-commission process? 4.Offenders' types and offenders' motivations in elderly sexual abuse 5.Lethal outcome in elderly sexual abuse 6.Elderly sexual abuse in residential care 7.Victimological processes of elderly sexual abuse in an extrafamilial context 8.Elderly and child victims: Different age, same issue 9.Prevention and investigation of elderly sexual abuse Conclusion: Where have all the "good old" people gone?