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Guardianship Against Crime: Exploring the Individual Factors on Exhibiting Guardianship
Vu, M.L. (2023) Guardianship Against Crime: Exploring the Individual Factors on Exhibiting Guardianship.
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| Abstract: | This research focused on an individual’s willingness to intervene to prevent a potential crime event. Previous studies stated that every ordinary person could be a guardian. Yet, research on guardianship focused mostly on the environmental factors that disrupt or discourage guardianship and not on the individual factors. However, a person’s decision to be an active guardian is influenced by individual factors that have not been extensively researched. To address this knowledge gap about a person’s willingness to intervene, the present study investigated how participants’ political orientation, implicit bias, life experience and knowledge about crime have an effect on their willingness to intervene when being confronted with an ambiguous crime scene based on self-reported data from 148 participants. The results showed that political orientation, implicit attitudes, and life experience and knowledge about crime do not influence the willingness to intervene. In conclusion, no significant differences were found in participants’ willingness to intervene regarding the likely offenders’ ethnicity. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology BSc (56604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/95274 |
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