"THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN": ON ALTRUISTIC FEAR OF CRIME
"THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN": ON ALTRUISTIC FEAR OF CRIME
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DOI：
10.1177/026975800901600302
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发表时间：
2009-12-01
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Heber, Anita
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作者：
Heber, Anita
对犯罪恐惧的研究几乎完全集中在个人对犯罪的恐惧上。很少有研究考察人们对犯罪的恐惧，因为它关系到他人的安全或福祉，即利他主义恐惧。在这一领域进行的少数研究中，研究结果表明，人们经历利他主义恐惧的时间比个人恐惧的时间要多。从这个意义上说，利他主义的恐惧可能比个人恐惧更有问题。本研究的目的是调查的关注，一些采访对象感到的亲戚和朋友。这项研究是基于20个深度访谈和8个试点访谈的男性和女性谁住在斯德哥尔摩，瑞典。受访者描述了他们所能想象的最糟糕的事情是他们的孩子或伴侣遭受犯罪。由于这些恐惧，访谈对象警告那些接近他们的人犯罪的危险。他们的利他主义恐惧可以理解为对未知和难以控制的情况的反应，因为受访者不知道有关的朋友和亲戚会发生什么。利他主义关注的焦点似乎通过生命历程转移，因此，利他主义的犯罪恐惧似乎有一个生命周期的影响。也有可能利他主义的恐惧，像个人的恐惧一样，构成了人们对生活在风险社会中感到焦虑的一种表达。
Research into the fear of crime has almost exclusively focused on personal fear of crime. Very few studies have examined people's fear of crime as it relates to the safety or wellbeing of others, i.e. altruistic fear. In the few studies that have been conducted in this area, the findings indicate that people spend more time experiencing altruistic fear than personal fear. In this sense, altruistic fear may be considered more of a problem than personal fear. The objective of the present study is that of investigating the concern that a number of interview subjects feel for relatives and friends. The study is based on 20 in-depth interviews and eight pilot interviews conducted with men and women who live in Stockholm, Sweden. The interviewees describe how the worst thing they can imagine is their children or partners being subjected to crime. As a consequence of these fears, the interview subjects warn those who are close to them of the dangers of crime. Their altruistic fear can be understood as a reaction to situations that are unknown and difficult to control, since the interviewees do not know what might happen to the friends and relatives concerned. The focus of altruistic concerns seems to shift through the life course and there thus appears to be a life cycle effect on altruistic fear of crime. It is also possible that altruistic fear, like personal fear, constitutes an expression of the anxiety people feel about living in a risk society.