التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
How Gender, Anonymity, and Social Norms affect Bystander Willingness to Intervene. |
| المؤلفون: |
Cope, Sarah, Madfis, Eric, Levin, Jack |
| المصدر: |
Conference Papers - American Sociological Association; 2010 Annual Meeting, p1941-1941, 1p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
SOCIAL control, THEFT, CRIME, SOCIAL norms, SURVEYS |
| مستخلص: |
This paper addresses the gap in the literature addressing the comparative reaction of bystanders to witnessing different types of crime. Specifically, we compare the likelihood of reporting being a bystander to an iPod theft, a physical assault, and a sexual assault. Using different survey versions, we also varied the relationship between the bystander and the offender (in some cases, the offender is the bystander's good friend, in others, a stranger) and the factor of anonymity when reporting. Some 89% of respondents (n=393) said they were "likely" or "very likely" to report witnessing a physical assault but only 19% were "likely" or "very likely" to report a sexual assault. In a comparison of means, the iPod theft was the most likely to be reported (4.45 out of 5), followed by the physical assault (3.34), with the sexual assault in a distant third place (2.45). Overall, all respondents were unlikely to report the crime they witnessed (2.45 out of 5). Each of these interactions were statistically significant at the 0.0001 level. The role of bystander gender and social norms are considered as possible explanatory factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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