What troubles our senior citizens? Crime against the elderly in the Czech Republic in 2016

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14230/17:00096363

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.kontakt.2017.01.004" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.kontakt.2017.01.004</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.kontakt.2017.01.004" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.kontakt.2017.01.004</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

What troubles our senior citizens? Crime against the elderly in the Czech Republic in 2016

Original language description

The article examines a topical issue: the prevention of crime committed in the Czech Republic against senior citizens. It aims to describe: (1) how aware senior citizens are of the options available to prevent crime; (2) from what sources they obtained this information; and (3) how sufficient they judge this information to be. A semi-structured questionnaire was distributed in October 2016 among those attending the University of the Third Age at Masaryk University in Brno. A total of 92 forms were returned, the analysis of which showed that most respondents had encountered information about crime against senior citizens, and that the bulk of this information was obtained from the media and from peers (friends etc.). The information was concerned with particular types of crime against senior citizens and tended not to involve prevention, i.e. how senior citizens might act to avoid crime. Respondents viewed the information as insufficient, with specific advice on preventive behaviour noticeably absent. On the basis of these findings the authors propose that prevention measures should be designed to cater for the specific characteristics of the various groups of senior citizens.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50402 - Demography

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Kontakt

ISSN

1212-4117

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

19

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

36-42

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85013465995