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Not Your Usual Suspect

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FEMINIST DEVELOPMENTS IN VIOLENCE AND ABUSE

Series Editors: Dr Hannah Bows, Durham University (UK) and Professor Nicole Westmarland, Durham University (UK)

Feminist Developments in Violence and Abuse provides a feminist forum for academic work that pushes forward existing knowledge around violence and abuse, informing policy and practice, with the overarching objective of contributing towards ending violence and abuse within our society. The series enables academics, practitioners, policy-makers and professionals to continually build and explore their understanding of the dynamics, from the microlevel to the macrolevel, that are driving violence and abuse. The study of abuse and violence has a large scope for co-producing research, and this series is a home for research involving a broad range of stakeholders; particularly those working in grassroots domestic and sexual violence organisations, police, prosecutors, lawyers, campaign groups, housing and victim services. As violence and abuse research reaches across disciplinary boundaries, the series has an interdisciplinary scope with research impact at the heart.

Available Volumes:

• Victims’ Experiences of the Criminal Justice Response to Domestic Abuse: Beyond GlassWalls

  Emma Forbes

• Understanding and Responding to Economic Abuse

  Nicola Sharp-Jeffs

• Rape Myths: Understanding, Assessing, and Preventing

  Sofia Persson and Katie Dhingra

• Gendered Justice? How Women’s Attempts to Cope With, Survive, or Escape Domestic Abuse Can Drive Them into Crime

  Jo Roberts

• ‘Rough Sex’ and the Criminal Law: Global Perspectives

  Hannah Bows and Jonathan Herring

Forthcoming Volumes:

• Mind the Gender Gap: A Mobilities Perspective of Sexual Harassment on the London Underground

  Siân Lewis

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Not Your Usual Suspect: Older Offenders of Violence and Abuse

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HANNAH BOWS

Durham University, UK

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Contents

About the Authors

Richard A. Aborisade, PhD, is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Criminology and Victimology at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State. He received his doctorate from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He also holds an MBA in Information Technology from Coventry University, UK. His works on sexual abuse/violence as a theme includes ‘Image-based Sexual Abuse’, ‘Barriers to Rape Reporting for Nigerian Women’, ‘The Victimology of Rape in Nigeria, Social Perception, Rape Scripts and Unacknowledged Sexual Assault in Nigeria’, ‘Child Sexual Abuse’, ‘Sexual Abuse of Elderly Women’, ‘Police Sexual Misconduct Against Female Arrestees’, ‘Sexual Harassment of Female Bartenders’, ‘The Use of Adolescent Girls as Waitresses in Outdoor Drinking Bars’ and ‘Sexual Violence at Music Festivals’. Articles from these works have featured in both local and international journals.

Claire Bellamy is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is a Registered Social Worker who maintains a practice base in the field of Criminal Justice, work with high risk offenders and MAPPA. She was appointed as Lay Advisor for Greater Manchester MAPPA Strategic Management Board in 2018. She is also an External Examiner to Sheffield Hallam University Community Justice Programme. She worked as a Probation Officer and Manager in the National Probation Service for 21 years before joining MMU.

Hannah Bows is an Associate Professor in Criminal Law at Durham University. She is a Deputy Dean of the Law School and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse (CRiVA). She is a Chair of the British Society of Criminology (BSC) Victims Network and an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Social Work. Most of her research focuses on interpersonal violence, with a particular interest in crimes against – and by – older adults.

Michelle Carr is a HCPC Registered Forensic Psychologist, a Chartered Psychologist and Scientist, and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS). Additionally, she has achieved Senior Fellow status with the UK Higher Education Academy. Due to independent work which requires the preparation of psychological assessments for HMPPS, SPS and the courts, she is included on the expert witness register. Furthermore, she is a Registered Trainer of the qualifications in test use and holds qualifications in forensic, occupational and personality testing. She has cross cultural experience of applied forensic psychology, having previously worked in New Zealand for the Department of Corrections. She is currently the Lead Psychologist within a high dependency rehabilitation unit for women in the UK. For over a decade she has honed her expertise while working alongside women residing in secure environments. During her time as a Clinician, she has continued to participate actively in research and has published articles about the use of risk assessment tools with females, psychometric assessments as well as psychological interventions in the prison estate.

Bram Claeys has studied Geriatric Nursing and Gerontology, and currently works as Care Manager at General Hospital Groeninge. He wrote his Master’s thesis on Resident-to-Resident Elder Aggression in Flemish nursing homes.

Liesbeth De Donder is a Professor of Adult Educational Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. Her research focuses on participation and exclusion of older people, quality care and elder mistreatment.

Delali A. Dovie is a Sociologist and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Ageing Studies at the University of Ghana, with a focus on the well-being and quality of life of older people through cutting edge research, quality improvement and implementation work. She earned a Doctorate degree in Sociology – Gerontology with a goal of developing a broad understanding of the experiences of older people, such as physical well-being, age-specific concerns and/or critical issues. Her research concentrates on retirement planning and related labour issues; active ageing; ageing and care infrastructure systems; gender and ageing; health and ageing; ageing, spirituality and religion; ageing and deviant behaviour; social inclusion/exclusion; and welfare system for older adults. She has written several book chapters and journal articles. Best known among her publications is the ‘Status of Older Adult Care in Contemporary Ghana: A Profile of Some Emerging Issues’ (Dovie, 2019). Her article (co-authored with Ama De-Graft Aikins, Mawuli Kushitor, Olutobi Sanuade, Samuel Dakey, and Joana Kwabena-Adade) is ‘Research on Aging in Ghana from the 1950s to 2016: A Bibliography’. Her book chapter is ‘Modulating Criminality among Ghanaian Public and State Officials: Exploring Transformational Change Mechanisms’ (Chapter 3) in the book Contemporary Issues of Criminology in Africa (Dovie, 2021).

Lorraine Green is a Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences at Edge Hill University. She is a Qualified Social Worker but has worked in academia, across social work and the social sciences, at many different universities, for approximately 25 years. She has researched and published on various issues topics. These include child abuse, domestic violence as applied to lesser understood and under-researched groups, residential child care, the life course, emotional labour and the veterinary professions, the body and the senses, ethics and social work, and social policy as applied to social work, among other topics. Her most recent publications are on the Sociology and Psychology of the life course, touch and obesity.

Kyros Hadjisergis, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Wolverhampton. He has conducted research in the areas of probation and human rights, offender management, organised crime and community justice, human trafficking, and has expertise in qualitative methods. His wider research interests relate to probation, rehabilitation and desistance, community crime prevention, restorative justice, and human rights. He teaches across all undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Criminology and Criminal Justice and has undertaken research evaluations in associated settings.

Jeremy Hawksworth is a PhD candidate studying at the University of Bristol and researching the intersection between age and gender from the perspective of male perpetrators of intimate partner violence. He recently completed a pilot study which contributes to his PhD study. He has extensive professional experience working as an Offender Manager within the UK National Probation Service, where he assessed and managed both general and domestically violent offenders. He also worked as a Facilitator on the Integrated Domestic Abuse programme and has delivered risk assessment and domestic violence-related training to a wide range of professionals.

Ezgi Ildirim received her PhD degree from Istanbul University, Institute of Forensic Science. She is a PhD Lecturer in İstinye University, Psychology Department. She has studied on cybercrimes, eyewitness testimony. Her main interest areas are forensic psychology and correctional psychology.

Margaret Struthers is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is a Registered Social Worker who maintains a practice base in the field of Domestic Violence and Abuse. She has worked in a variety of social work and criminal justice roles for many years as a Practitioner, Trainer, Practice Consultant and Manager. This experience includes work with people who perpetrate violence and abuse and people who have been ‘victims’ of violence and abuse in their intimate relationships.

Justyna Włodarczyk-Madejska is a Criminologist and holds PhD in Law. She is an Assistant Professor in Department of Criminology Institute of Law Studies Polish Academy of Sciences and Senior Researcher in the Institute of Justice. Member of the Polish Society of Criminology and European Society of Criminology. Currently she serves as an Executive Editor in the ‘Archives of Criminology’ – the oldest and the most prestigious Polish criminological journal. Her academic interest covers inter alia juvenile justice and juvenile delinquency, offending in the old age and criminological aspects of on international judicial cooperation in criminal matters.