ZAPOBIEGANIE WIKTYMIZACJI LUDZI STARSZYCH

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1999

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Wydział Prawa i Administracji UAM

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PREVENTING VICTIMISATION OF THE ELDERLY

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Preventing victimisation must comprise on one hand a reduction of objective danger and, on the other, of a fear of crime. Since the very beginning of studies on fear and crime the elderly were considered as much more jeopardised than other citizens. Such a result is justifiable first of all by a greater vulnerability, both physical and psychological - in the face of the effects of a victimisation. Such an effect deepens only a feeling of alienation and of social disintegration as resulting from changed social status, more particularly - after a retirement. Presently it is stressed on engaging organisations of seniors in preparing and performing some preventive programmes for the people of the same old age. It is also very important to include this anti-crime education within the complex of activities aiming at reinforcing a sense of social identity, at reducing the fear, perplexity and subjective feeling of social isolation of the elderly. One of the most important elements of prophylactic programmes is to mobilise these men to a self-depending activity. Despite of the fact that a crime-preventing can not be left exclusively to the police, the police tasks are here of very much importance because its officers in their uniforms — when only properly reacting to signals from citizens in a jeopardy — contribute largely to break a barrier of distrust before the police and to diminish the fear itself. In Poland a modem policeman acting in conformity with the co-called „community policing” model has a good chance to obtain some good preventive effects among the seniors.

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Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 61, 1999, z. 1, s. 119-130.

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0035-9629

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Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Biblioteka Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego