1인 가구의 범죄피해-두려움 패러독스(victimization-fear paradox)

초록

This study examined the effect of the household size on the household member’s fear of crime among the adult Korean population. We used 2014 Korean General Social Survey data for the analyses. For females, the fear of crime was positively associated with the household size. Such a pattern was not found for males. Given that the members of single-person households reported the lowest level of the fear of crime in spite of the highest possibility of crime victimization, our findings revealed the victimization-fear paradox related with the household size. To explain the paradoxical phenomenon, we suggested a possibility of the contagion of fear and an influence of maternity ideology.

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