Rethinking Social Reactions to Crime: Personal and Altruistic Fear in Family Households1

By Mark Warr, C. Ellison. American Journal of Sociology, 2000

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Crime and Mental Well-Being (2014, unknown): “Although research on fear of crime has mainly focused on personal fear, a few papers have also looked into the fact that people not only fear for themselves but also for other individuals that are dear to them - eg children and spouses (Warr and Ellison, 2000; Tulloch, 2004).”
Does Watching the News Affect Fear of Terrorism? The Importance of Media Exposure on Terrorism Fear (2012, background): “Warr and Ellison (2000) addressed this issue and argued that use of the word fear in questions on the topic would be more likely to tap one’s sense of an immediate threat rather than one’s anxiety about future victimizations that could occur in the future.”
Race/ethnicity and perceptions of the police: a comparison of White, Black, Asian and Hispanic Americans (2014, background): “Many of these questions are taken from well-established survey instruments, such as the National Policing & Society 141 Crime Victimisation Survey, the Project on Human Development, Communities, and Neighbourhoods (e.g. Sampson et al. 1997), and the Texas Poll (Warr and Ellison 2000).”
Media, Gender, and Fear of Crime (2015, background): “Personal victimization or victimization of family or friends may raise fear of crime through perceived risk because of the proximity of the crime and the concern they have for loved ones (Warr & Ellison, 2000).”
FEAR OF CRIME AND PERSONAL VULNERABILITY: EXAMINING SELF-REPORTED HEALTH (2011, background): “Individuals fear crime for many reasons and a considerable body of research has been devoted to this topic (see Hale 1996 ; Ferraro 1995 ; Warr 2000 for a full review).”
A Gendered Assessment of the ‘‘Threat of Victimization’’: Examining Gender Differences in Fear of Crime, Perceived Risk, Avoidance, and Defensive Behaviors (2010, background): “Even in studies that consider men’s fear of crime, the focus tends to be on men’s fear of crime for others rather than men’s fear of crime for the self (Ferraro, 1995; Snedker, 2003; Warr, 1992; Warr & Ellison, 2000).”
AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE “THREAT OF VICTIMIZATION:” CONSIDERING FEAR OF CRIME, PERCEIVED RISK, AVOIDANCE, AND DEFENSIVE BEHAVIORS (2007, background): “Other researchers have also argued that experiencing victimization indirectly (eg, having a family member, friend, neighbor, or community member who was victimized) may actually impact fear of crime as well (Mesch 2000 ; Warr and Ellison 2000 ).”
Multilevel Impacts of Perceived Incivilities and Perceptions of Crime Risk on Fear of Crime (2008, background): “Warr and Ellison (2000), however, noted the possibility that “personal fear and forms of altruistic fear are not in fact independent” (p. 566).”
LIES, DAMN LIES, AND RUMORS: AN ANALYSIS OF COLLECTIVE EFFICACY, RUMORS, AND FEAR IN THE WAKE OF KATRINA (2007, background): “One distinction between personal and altruistic fear is that the latter may be more prevalent than the former (Warr 1992 ; Warr and Ellison 2000 ).”
Gender Differences in Fear of Terrorism (2009, background): “Though some researchers object to using questions with the word worry to measure fear, it has generally been established that the term worry is a satisfactory measure of fear (Lane & Meeker, 2000; Warr & ellison, 2000).”