The Criminal History of Elderly Criminals
- LanguageKorean
- Authors Hyungmin Bark, Yeonsu Kim, Hyoeun Yu
- ISBN979-11-89908-57-7
- Date December 01, 2019
- Hit355
This study was conducted through a literature study on the trends of criminal career and in-depth interviews with criminals in prison.
The literature study was conducted to determine the trends of criminal history research.
Through the literature study, prior studies on each issue, such as changes in the paradigm of life-course study, methods of collecting and analyzing life-course research data, and criminal records of criminals, were compiled and the direction of development of criminal-history research and life-course study was presented.
Interviews were conducted to examine the life-cycle experiences of older experienced criminals, and to find out the main events and their meaning that each case experienced in adolescence, youth, and middle-aged years, beginning with childhood. Factors prominent in each phase of crime such as beginning, stopping, restarting, and continuing were extracted and analyzed if there was a relationship between the factors.
The literature study was conducted to determine the trends of criminal history research.
Through the literature study, prior studies on each issue, such as changes in the paradigm of life-course study, methods of collecting and analyzing life-course research data, and criminal records of criminals, were compiled and the direction of development of criminal-history research and life-course study was presented.
Interviews were conducted to examine the life-cycle experiences of older experienced criminals, and to find out the main events and their meaning that each case experienced in adolescence, youth, and middle-aged years, beginning with childhood. Factors prominent in each phase of crime such as beginning, stopping, restarting, and continuing were extracted and analyzed if there was a relationship between the factors.
It was poverty or economic hardship that most notably emerged as a starting factor for crime. Next there were a number of criminals who started crimes at the request of their friends. There were other cases in which resentment against spouses and drinking resulted in violent crimes, and there were repeated cases in which crimes that resulted in large sums of money were considered accidental luck and repeated acts of the same type.
Almost common causes of discontinuation in cases with experience of stopping crimes are 'marriage (and childbirth)' and 'participation in regular labor'. They were able to stop crimes for a short time due to stability through marriage or responsibility for their families, and in this regard, they were able to stop crimes through economic activities and labor participation, not through crime.
There are a variety of factors that stop and restart crime. Economic difficulties are important as a restart factor. And 'criminal success experience' was an important factor. This factor also works as a factor that keeps crime going without stopping it. A criminal success experience refers to an experience in the past in which a person has experience in solving a problem through a crime or may think that a relatively large success has occurred as a result of a criminal act. If marriage and childbirth were the stop factors, divorce was the restart factor. The moment the power to stop criminal activity is gone, they are more likely to participate in the crime again.
The biggest factor keeping the crime was the criminal record, built up by repeated crimes. Many criminal careers are directly and indirectly linked to all other factors. Many criminal careers make it difficult to obtain legitimate jobs, making it difficult to choose other activities than crimes. Some of the many criminal careers have led to the experience of criminal success, thus attempting to achieve success again through the continuation of the crime. A number of criminal careers make criminals familiar with criminal behavior, so that they don't feel the problem of crime. Many criminal careers eventually lead to attempts to solve economic problems by making criminals poor.
Key words: crime history, elderly criminals, intermittence of crimes, persistence of crimes, restarting crimes
Almost common causes of discontinuation in cases with experience of stopping crimes are 'marriage (and childbirth)' and 'participation in regular labor'. They were able to stop crimes for a short time due to stability through marriage or responsibility for their families, and in this regard, they were able to stop crimes through economic activities and labor participation, not through crime.
There are a variety of factors that stop and restart crime. Economic difficulties are important as a restart factor. And 'criminal success experience' was an important factor. This factor also works as a factor that keeps crime going without stopping it. A criminal success experience refers to an experience in the past in which a person has experience in solving a problem through a crime or may think that a relatively large success has occurred as a result of a criminal act. If marriage and childbirth were the stop factors, divorce was the restart factor. The moment the power to stop criminal activity is gone, they are more likely to participate in the crime again.
The biggest factor keeping the crime was the criminal record, built up by repeated crimes. Many criminal careers are directly and indirectly linked to all other factors. Many criminal careers make it difficult to obtain legitimate jobs, making it difficult to choose other activities than crimes. Some of the many criminal careers have led to the experience of criminal success, thus attempting to achieve success again through the continuation of the crime. A number of criminal careers make criminals familiar with criminal behavior, so that they don't feel the problem of crime. Many criminal careers eventually lead to attempts to solve economic problems by making criminals poor.
Key words: crime history, elderly criminals, intermittence of crimes, persistence of crimes, restarting crimes
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