Fear Of Crime

An investigation of current evidence concerning the fear of crime in society seems to imply clearly that the elderly stand the heaviest psychological costs of crime. It is clear the elderly are more concerned and fearful about crime than any other age group within society. It was showed throughout numerous studies when asked how safe they feel within their community, anywhere between 40 and 60 percent responded feeling “very unsafe”. Additionally, in particular, arguments from a gerontology psychological perspective disclose that older people are by no means irrational but, on the contrary, act in an effectively cautious way as they know about their higher physical defenselessness. It is due to their carefulness that older people are in fact