TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - Rethinking Social Reactions to Crime: Personal and Altruistic Fear in Family Households
JO  - American journal of sociology
A1  - Warr, Mark
A1  - Ellison, Christopher G.
SP  - 551
EP  - 578
VL  - 106
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 />
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SN  - 0002-9602
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/318964
ID  - ref1
ER  -