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Xanthe Weston, Associate Professor of Domestic and Family Violence, Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research, CQUniversity Australia

Are older Australians really safer from crime? The evidence says the harms are just harder to see

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Australians are once again mourning after the alleged murders of three women in New South Wales over the weekend. With two of the victims being 70 and 90 years old, questions are being asked about the safety of older people.

Research has long established that older people are less likely to be victims of crime than younger people, with two notable exceptions: fraud, and abuse by people known to them.

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