CITIZEN CRIME STEREOTYPES—NORMATIVE CONSENSUS REVISITED

摘要: This paper examines the extent of agreement about complex perceptions crime—crime stereotypes. The literature addresses crime seriousness. Crime perception is a phenomenon including much more than judged stereotypes are shown to be coherently organized around few basic such as level violence, amount property harm, sex relatedness, and perhaps others. While data affirm that there seriousness, it suggests significant disagreement regarding Different people adopt different These differences related social variables. most important theoretical conclusion any single perception, does not imply other features.