This chapter explores old age as an important sociological dimension of analysis and dissects its relationship to victimisation and contemporary crime. The chapter is concerned with examining how the notion of victim applies to older people within the life-course. We then move to explore the relationship between old age and victimisation and highlight a number of implications for the study of age and its relationship to victimisation. We conclude by suggesting that current political discourses position the concept of ‘victim’ along neoliberal lines of ‘responsibility’ as opposed to the societal construction of victim. In recent years, the experiences of ‘age groups’ across the life-course have been taken as a developing issue of concern in criminology. While this has been the case regarding ‘younger people’, the criminological development of ideas pertaining to the experiences and representations of ‘older people’ has been ‘unchartered territory’. Indeed, when comparing the category of ‘age’ to the criminological research that covers ‘race’, class and gender, age has been hidden and seen of as secondary importance. The major issue is perceived as being how to overcome the sociological triumvirate of ‘race’, class and gender without ignoring the experiences of individuals based on other equally important variables such as age, disability and sexuality. Our aim is to demonstrate that researchers studying the relationship between older people and victimisation would benefit from a more careful conceptualisation of ‘age’, one which focuses on the ways in which ‘old age’ itself is socially constructed, is represented and is used by particular interest groups.