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Older People in Northern Ireland

Brown & Gordon: Improving Access to Justice For Older Victims of Crime: Older People as Victims of Crime and the Response of the Criminal Justice System in Northern Ireland 2019

This report examines how to improve access to justice for older victims of crime in Northern Ireland.

It explores crime against older people in Northern Ireland and responses to it by the criminal justice system. An older person is defined for the purposes of this study as anyone aged 60 or over.