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Chapter 20

References from the book:

Aday, R.H. (2003) Aging Prisoners: Crisis in American Corrections. Westport CT: Praeger.
This is an excellent introduction to the profile of older offenders in US prisons. It provides a comprehensive view of the needs of offenders in later life, and recommends policy initiatives to address this growing population.

Biggs, S. (1993) Understanding Ageing—Images, Attitudes and Professional Practice. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Simon Biggs examines theoretical approaches to understanding old age. His book provides new insights into how older age is imagined, defined, and experienced. By studying self-perception, communication, and power relations, and applying his conclusions to the helping professions, institutions, and community care, Biggs offers a new framework for constructive social gerontology and reflexive praxis.

Bond, J., Coleman, P., and Peace, S. (eds) (1993) Ageing in Society—An Introduction to Social Gerontology. London: Sage.
This book provides a comprehensive coverage of gerontological issues while capturing the complexity inherent in the processes of ageing. The book emphasizes diversity in the experience of ageing as a function of cultural, social, racial/ethnic, and individual variability.

Rothman, M.B., Dunlop, B.D., and Entzel, P. (2000) Elders, Crime and the Criminal Justice System. New York: Springer.
The Rothman et al. collection is the only book that provides an international perspective on ageing offenders. This edited book examines the relationship between old age and crime and the criminal justice system.

Wahidin, A. (2004) Older Women in the Criminal Justice System: Running out of Time. London: Jessica Kingsley.
This book introduces the reader to key debates and issues surrounding the needs of the older prison population in England and Wales. In particular, this book is based on a national study of older women and their experiences of imprisonment. The author uses her recent work on older men in prisons and the management of the older prison population in the US and the UK to highlight implications for older offenders.

Wahidin, A. and Cain M. (eds) (2006) Age, Crime and Society. Cullompton: Willan Press.
The starting point of this book is that ‘age’ is under-theorized and viewed as unproblematic in criminology. There is very little material on ‘elder’ or later life crime, little on the victimization of elders except in relation to the presumptively irrational nature of their fears. The book examines some of the issues and concerns in the field of elder abuse and neglect and argues the case that Criminology as a discipline must address issues of ageing and its complex relationship with crime. This book is the first comprehensive text to tackle these issues.

Further references:

The below are a series of titles presenting well researched and presented analyses of the experiences of older prisoners and the issues faced by older prisoners of both genders. Azrini Wahidin (the author of this chapter) is the most prominent and widely published academic in this field.

Aday, R. H. (1999).  Golden years behind bars: A ten-year follow-up. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justices Sciences, Orlando, FL.

Fazel, S., Hope, T., O’Donnell, I., Piper, M. & Jacoby, R. (2001), ‘Health of Elderly Male Prisoners: Worse than the General population, Worse than Younger Prisoners’ in Age and Ageing 30: 403-407.

Phillips, J. (1996), Crime and Older Offenders. Practice, Vol 8, No.1 : 43-55.

Wahidin, A. (2003) Doing Hard Time: Older Women in Prison, Prison Service Journal January 2003 No 145  25- 29, ISSN 0300 –3558

Wahidin, A. and Aday, R. (2005) ‘The Needs of Older Men and Women in the Criminal Justice System:  An International Perspective’, Prison Service Journal July.

Wahidin, A, (2005) ‘We are a Significant Minority: Elderly Women in English Prisons’ British Journal of Criminology on line.

Wahidin, A. & Tate, S., (2005) ‘Prison (e)scapes and Body Tropes: Older Women in the Prison Time Machine’, Journal of  Body and Society, January Vol. 11  Part 2, 55-77

Wahidin, A. (2000).  ‘Life behind the shadows: Women’s experiences of prison in later life’ pp. 24 – 35 in Issues in Forensic Psychology, Positive Directions for Women in Secure Environments, Horn, R. and Warner, S. (eds.). The British Psychological Society. ISBN 185 433 3259.

Wahidin, A. (2002),  ‘Reconfiguring Older Bodies in the Prison Time Machine’ Journal of Aging and Identity 7 (3):177-193, September 2002. ISSN 1087-3732.

Wahidin, A. (2003), ‘Women, Old Age and The PrisonSystem’ in Criminal Justice Matters Autumn No 53, pp. 38-40. ISSN 0962 7251
 
Wahidin, A.,  (2004), ‘Reclaiming Agency – Managing Ageing Bodies in Prison’in Tulle, E. (ed.) Old Age and Human  Agency.New York, Nova Science Publishers.