'Watch out, Sweetie': The Impact of Gender and Offence Type on Parents' Altruistic Fear of Crime.
Altruistic fear of crime, that is, the fear that another person will become a victim of crime, is frequent and relevant, especially among parents for their children, but it has received much less attention than personal fear in the social sciences literature. We aim to analyze this fear in relation...
| Publicado en: | Sex Roles Vol. 77; no. 9-10; pp. 676 - 687 |
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