title: Perceptions by the aged of crime, criminals, and the criminal justice system.
abstract: A general fear of crime victimization led to modified activities in the community and feelings of relative safety in their own area for 132 elderly respondents on a 24-item questionnaire. They held sympathetic views of crime perpetrators as disadvantaged victims of society themselves, but came to the unlikely conclusions that more police control and harsher prison sentences are needed.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D001290:Attitude; D002140:California; D003415:Crime; D003416:Criminal Law; D006801:Humans; D007603:Jurisprudence