Fear and Loading
Archival Traces of the Response to Extraordinary Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11325682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dane Archer (0000-0001-7646-8396, corresponding author), Lynn Erlich-Erfer (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 343 |
| Publication date | 1991-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Psychology Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-2725 • E-ISSN: 1939-8999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2786846 |
| OpenAlex | W2033939581 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 11 |
This is an archival study of fear and fearful behavior. In 1973, a single county in California was beset by a dramatic epidemic of homicide. We examine two archival indictors of fear: handgun purchases and hitchhiking. We use these indictors to study the distribution of fear in time, place, and the social order. The results show that archival data can be used to reconstruct emotional responses to fearful events, that community fear peaks after the objective danger is past, that community fear is more uniformly spread than the objective danger, and that gun purchases after violent events are demographically similar to gun purchases at other times. We indicate some characteristics of unusually fearful individuals, describe the persistence of fear, and discuss empirical differences between objective and subjective fear
Criminology · Fear of crime · Homicide · Medical emergency · Poison control · Suicide prevention · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
Violence and Crime in Cross-National Perspective
Coping with crime
Mental illness and the economy
The measurement of delinquency
Handbook of Research Design & Social Measurement
Fear of Crime
The Contagion of Criminal Violence
Public Attitudes toward Crime and Law Enforcement
The Polls
The Seriousness of Crimes
The Ownership of the Means of Destruction
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2013 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |