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- Title
Safe Haven or Dangerous Place? Stereotype Amplification and Americans' Perceived Risk of Terrorism, Violent Street Crime, and Mass Shootings.
- Authors
Haner, Murat; Sloan, Melissa M; Pickett, Justin T; Cullen, Francis T
- Abstract
People overestimate the risk of some events, such as terrorist attacks and immigrant crimes, but not of others. Stereotype amplification theory indicates that politicized, out-group stereotypes may be to blame. We examine Americans' perceptions of the risk that different forms of violence—out-group, in-group and non-racialized—will occur in their local communities. We hypothesize that negative stereotypes of immigrants and Muslims will increase the perceived risk of out-group violence but not of other forms of violence. Analyses of original survey data from a sample of 1,068 Americans reveal four findings: (1) most Americans accurately perceive home-grown violence to be more likely than violence by foreigners, (2) political identification and ideology strongly predict out-group stereotypes, (3) out-group stereotypes strongly predict the perceived risk of out-group violence but are not significantly associated with risk perceptions for other forms of violence and (4) vulnerability factors predict risk perceptions for all forms of violence.
- Subjects
TERRORISM; NONCITIZEN criminals; MUSLIMS; OUTGROUPS (Social groups); VIOLENCE
- Publication
British Journal of Criminology, 2020, Vol 60, Issue 6, p1606
- ISSN
0007-0955
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/bjc/azaa045