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The Role of the Elderly Defendant in the Criminal Court: Full Dress Adversary or Reluctant Penitant?
Feinberg, Gary – 1985
Approximately 200,000 persons aged 60 and older are arrested annually in the United States and over 50,000 of these persons are formally accused of a crime each year. An exploratory study was conducted to probe the adversarial posture of elderly misdemeanant defendants. An analysis of 4,976 cases drawn from the official dockets of the Dade County…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Age Discrimination, Court Litigation, Criminals
