The recent interest in elderly offenders has spawned issues concerning their treatment. Elderly criminals, who contribute only about 4 percent of the total arrest in the United States, have heretofore been subject to the legal procedures applied to all adult offenders, perhaps tempered locally and informally by a certain amount of leniency on the part of police or judges. With the new focus on elderly offenders, has the time come for a general policy on treatment of these offenders, different from that meted out to adult offenders of all ages?
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