@article{ref1,
title="Rethinking Social Reactions to Crime: Personal and Altruistic Fear in Family Households",
journal="American journal of sociology",
year="2000",
author="Warr, Mark and Ellison, Christopher G.",
volume="106",
number="3",
pages="551-578",
abstract="Research on fear of crime in the United States has concentrated on personal fear while overlooking the fear that people have for others in their lives-children, spouses, friends-whose safety they value. Sample survey data reveal that altruistic fear (fear for others) has a distinctive structure in family households and is more common and often more intense than personal fear. Many of the everyday precautions practiced by Americans and conventionally assumed to be self-protective appear to be a consequence of altruistic fear. These and other findings underscore the need to understand fear of crime as a social rather than an individual phenomenon.<p />",
language="",
issn="0002-9602",
doi="10.1086/318964",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/318964"
}