National University of Singapore, Singapore.
State Courts Centre for Specialist Services, Singapore.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2024 Jan;68(1):85-106. doi: 10.1177/0306624X211058953. Epub 2021 Nov 20.
This research, using data from the Community Criminal Courts where a majority of elderly offenders are tried and sentenced, investigates the socio-economic profile of elderly offenders and the factors influencing their criminal motivation in Singapore. It revisits conceptualizations of offending in older age which until now has received scant attention even in Asian societies where ties to conventional institutions are thought to be "protective." The majority of elderly offenders in this study were "revolving door prisoners" and were never in possession of any efficacious social capital that would have prevented them from committing a crime or enabled their re-entry process, a problem compounded by the study's findings that almost 70% of the sampled offenders had experienced mental health issues. This would have spelled adverse consequences for their desistance and, conversely, their recidivist behavior, a finding that was consistent with many other studies that had examined the association between psychosis and crime.
本研究使用来自社区刑事法院的数据，这些法院是大多数老年罪犯受审和判刑的地方，调查了老年罪犯的社会经济概况以及影响他们犯罪动机的因素。它重新审视了在老年时犯罪的概念化，直到现在，即使在亚洲社会，这种概念化也很少受到关注，在亚洲社会，与传统机构的联系被认为是“保护性的”。本研究中的大多数老年罪犯都是“反复进出监狱的囚犯”，他们从未拥有过任何有效的社会资本，这些社会资本本可以防止他们犯罪或使他们重新融入社会，但研究发现，近 70%的抽样罪犯都存在心理健康问题，这使得他们的改过自新变得更加困难，并且反过来也使他们再次犯罪的行为更加复杂。这对他们的悔改和相反的累犯行为将产生不利影响，这一发现与许多其他研究犯罪与精神病之间关联的研究结果一致。
