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How fear of crime affects punitive attitudes
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Abstract This article investigates different types of fear of crime as predictors for punitive attitudes. Using data from a Germany-wide representative survey (n = 1272) it examines the reliability and validity of survey instruments through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and uses structural equation mode... view more
This article investigates different types of fear of crime as predictors for punitive attitudes. Using data from a Germany-wide representative survey (n = 1272) it examines the reliability and validity of survey instruments through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and uses structural equation modeling (SEM) to explain variations in the level of respondents’ punitive attitudes. The results show that different emotional and cognitive responses to crime have a distinctive effect on the formation of punitive attitudes. These effects vary significantly depending on socio-demographic factors and assumed purposes of punishment. A crucial observation of the study is that men’s fear of crime works in a different way in the formation of punitive attitudes than women’s fear of crime. The perceived locus of control for the crimethreat is a possible explanation for this difference.... view less
Keywords
criminality; anxiety; punitivity; attitude; locus of control; risk; perception; emotionality; cognition; affectivity; measurement; scale construction
Classification
Criminal Sociology, Sociology of Law
Social Psychology
Free Keywords
SEM; CFA; Kriminalitätsfurcht
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 461-481
Journal
European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 23 (2017) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10610-017-9342-5
ISSN
1572-9869
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0
With the permission of the rights owner, this publication is under open access due to a (DFG-/German Research Foundation-funded) national or Alliance license.