title: Improving Access to Justice For Older Victims of Crime: Older People as Victims of Crime and the Response of the Criminal Justice System in Northern Ireland
abstract: This Commissioned report examines how to improve access to justice for older victims of crime. It explores crime against older people and responses to it by the criminal justice system. An older person is defined for the purposes of this study as anyone aged 60 or over. 
  
  Older people have been neglected in research-based studies on victims of crime. The interviews and focus groups with older people, including those who have experienced victimisation first-hand, provide key and unique insights
journal: Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast)