Elderly Crime Victims Compensation: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, Held February 16, 1977, in New York, N.Y.U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - 72 lappuses |
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agency Beckman BOHLINGER Bronx burglary centers Chairman City CLAUDE PEPPER COHEN Committee on Aging compensation board concern CONGRES THE LIBRARY CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressman costs court crime prevention crime victims compensation criminal justice process criminal justice system effect elderly citizens elderly crime victims elderly victim enforcement and criminal fact Federal funds GENNARO groups hearing hospital involved JAMES ABDNOR Kotch Law Enforcement Assistance LEAA LEAA's legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LOMINO MARIO BIAGGI Marquette University MARY ROSE OAKAR medical bills Montgomery County MORRISON needs O'BRIEN offender older payment percent police department population problems purse snatching rehabilitation response restitution programs Robbery Rusk SANTINI senior citizens SHEFSKY society SUDIKER TED RISENHOOVER Telephone Thank thing tion victim compensation programs victimization rate victims and witnesses victims of crime York
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70. lappuse - To prevent crime and to insure the greater safety of the people, law enforcement efforts must be better coordinated, intensified, and made more effective at all levels of government.
52. lappuse - American Association of Retired Persons 1909 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20049 (202) 872-4700 Louise D.
5. lappuse - Survey is a program designed to develop information not otherwise available on the nature of crime and its impact on society by means of victimization surveys of the general population. Based on representative samplings of households and commercial establishments, the surveys elicit information about experiences, if any, with selected crimes of violence and theft, including events that were reported to the police as well as those that were not. By focusing on the victim, the person...
7. lappuse - These lower victimization rates in no way minimize the severity of crime's effects upon older people. These statistics may cast a cold light on reality but they do not measure the misery of fear, the apprehension, and the terror, which keeps many of the elderly in our cities virtual prisoners in their homes and apartments. More than one-half of the oldest persons surveyed indicated that they had limited or changed their patterns of living in order to minimize their risk of victimization. Add to this...
52. lappuse - Prevention is a science that can be defined as the anticipation, the recognition and the appraisal of a crime risk and the initiation of positive action to reduce or remove this risk.
5. lappuse - ... produced by the surveys is data on types of victims and information necessary to compute the relative risk of being victimized. The first results of the National Crime Panel programs were made available in three reports during 1974. These were followed by additional reports in 1975, 1976. and 1977. The victimization studies show that the highest rate of victimization occurs in the young age groups, with each older group having progressively lower rates. Persons 65 and over had the lowest rates...
70. lappuse - PART C — GRANTS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT PURPOSES "Sec. 301. (a) It is the purpose of this part to encourage States and units of general local government to carry out programs and projects to improve and strengthen law enforcement and criminal justice.
11. lappuse - ... needs. In certain instances, the victim centers attempt to restore to the victim any property or resources which have been lost. In other cases, the centers are geared to meet the needs of special classes of victims, such as rape victims or elderly persons who have been victimized.
9. lappuse - ... standards have now been developed for doors and windows which, if incorporated into State building codes, could make them far more resistant to illegal entry. CRIME PREVENTION THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN In many communities, the environment is custom-made for crime. Streets are poorly lit and deserted. Bus and subway stops offer natural lurking places for the criminal. People are afraid to venture out — especially the elderly — or they move about in fear and suspicion. Little by little,...
53. lappuse - Always be alert to your surroundings even in the daytime. • Be a good neighbor, report all suspicious people and activities to the police. The city's service clubs printed over 40,000 bookmarks listing such suggestions and had them placed in obvious locations in banks, stores and shopping centers. In addition, a graphic arts expert from a local manufacturer designed attractive newspaper ads and bumper stickers to publicize the project. The biggest publicity event since project inception was the...