ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how ageing has been overlooked by perspectives within criminology and by criminological researchers, particularly when compared to the consideration which has been given to class, ‘race’, gender and sexuality. Our aim is to demonstrate that researchers studying the relationship between older people and crime would benefit from a more careful conceptualisation of ‘age’, one which focuses on the ways in which ‘old age’ itself is socially constructed, is represented and used by particular interest groups.
