Crimes Against the Elderly

Elderly people, communities, and countries face many challenges, and the elderly population is rapidly increasing. As the criminal justice system is increasingly pressured to contain this trend, the frequency of older victims of various crimes is rising. Legislation to protect adults from crime in all states has been enacted, but there is a big gap in criminal reporting to the elderly nationwide. Elderly people are becoming increasingly more susceptible to physical, economic and spiritual abuse.

Financial crimes against the elderly fall into two broad categories: fraud by strangers and economic exploitation by relatives and carers. These categories may overlap in terms of target selection and means used for crime. However, if the relationship between the criminal and the victim is different, the method of analyzing the question and answering it will differ. Fraud usually involves deliberately deceiving victims' promised goods, services, or other nonexistent, unnecessary, unintended, or significantly distorted interests. There are hundreds of frauds, but offenders usually use that part to deal with the elderly. Fraud usually occurs with some interactions

Like crimes against the elderly, Sweden rarely publicly discusses crimes against people with disabilities. Statistics on the extent of these crimes are also not recorded in the health care or criminal justice system. However, in recent years concerns about crimes against women with disabilities are rising. According to Finndahl (2001), the most common perpetrators of such crimes are relatives. The crimes that occur in families are made by the outside world as if they were attractive, happy, happy relatives. This report says that breaking the confidence of a disabled woman is particularly easy as it is considered a second-class citizen and may feel sick before being attacked.