17 December 2007: Growing Old Disgracefully

Crimes committed by older people in Japan jumped threefold this year compared with a decade ago.

About 45,000 people over 65 were prosecuted between January and November, nearly half of them for shoplifting.

And assaults by older people rose to 1,700 from just 100 in the same period a decade ago, according to the National Police Agency.

SaintFM blames their parents.