Crimes committed against the retired

The bachelor thesis deals with the violence against seniors. The purpose of the thesis is to analyse and reflect this problematic issue. The theoretical part of the thesis is focusing on the role of seniors in society in general, criminality and its formation, crime prevention, and its possible solution. The practical part of the thesis is aim at the method of qualitative research. The data collection method is aiming at frequency of violence against seniors in each region. On the basis of interviews with attacked seniors, the assumptions, aforementioned in the theoretical part, have been confirmed and, specially, the easiness of its formation. The result may be helpful in setting an objective view on causes of the victimization of seniors (process in which a person, usually old, become a victim of a crime) and may serve as a prevention against these types of crimes