Burglary (Non)prevention: An Instance of Relinquishing Control
- 1 July 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 4 (3) , 399-405
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616727800400308
Abstract
Two field experiments were conducted to assess the attributions people make for burglary and burglary prevention, and the degree to which these attributions relate to overt crime prevention measures. It was found that an overwhelming majority of our subjects believed that burglary prevention was the responsibility of others and as such, they did not take overt precautionary measures themselves. To our surprise, there were no differences on these measures between burglarized and nonburglarized subjects.Keywords
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