TY - JOUR PY - 1986// TI - Dwelling and the experience of burglary JO - Journal of environmental psychology A1 - Korosec-Serfaty, Perla A1 - Bolitt, Dominique SP - 329 EP - 344 VL - 6 IS - 4 N2 - This study attempts to define the fundamental dimensions of the home experience through its dramatization, in this case, when one is burgled. It is based on thirty-six interviews conducted with middle-class urban dwellers who had been burgled a year prior to the interview. The analysis of the data was mainly thematic and hermeneutical. It shows that the dwelling experience is the experience of boundaries, the door being a limit between inside and outside, and also a limit within oneself. Moreover, the uncontrolled access by another person to the hidden/secret subspaces of the dwelling incites reactions which reveal the importance of the dweller's visibility. Lastly, the re-appropriation processes which take place after the burglary show that dwelling is essentially a sum of future-orientated actions.

LA - SN - 0272-4944 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0272-4944(86)80005-6 ID - ref1 ER -