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Intergroup Contact With Refugees Shapes Levels of Social Fear of Crime

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Intergroup contact affects how people see the world more broadly. Across four studies (Ntotal = 1,743), we tested whether valenced intergroup contact with refugees as a criminally stigmatized group affects social fear of crime mediated by prejudice.
Patrick F. Kotzur   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

What We Spend and What We Get: Public and Private Provision of Crime Prevention [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper, we consider a number of issues regarding crime prevention and criminal justice. We begin by considering how crime is measured and present both general and specific evidence on the level of crime in a variety of countries.
Ann Dryden Witte, Robert Witt
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Hate Crime Legislation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
[Excerpt] On October 28, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law, as Division E of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (P.L. 111-84; H.R. 2647).
Krouse, William J
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Matching your way to Success: The Influence of Motivational Frame Matching on Interaction Outcomes and Reciprocal Matching

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Theories of interpersonal sensemaking postulate that positive interactions emerge in interactions where speakers match on motivational frames. Across three experiments (N = 1609) using a hypothetical simulation framework, we provide the first evidence of a causal link between motivational frame matching and positive interaction outcomes in ...
Mattias Sjöberg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is there a need for identity cards? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Commentary by Stephen Mason on the issues and practicalities involved in government introduction of compulsory registration cards - in particular claims regarding prevention of terrorism and crime.
Mason, Stephen
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The Effectiveness of Interventions Addressing Conspiracy Beliefs: A Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reducing conspiracy beliefs through effective interventions may help mitigate potential harmful consequences, such as vaccine hesitancy and prejudice. Therefore, a systematic literature search was conducted in Web of Science, PsycINFO, and Google Scholar for experiments testing interventions that could potentially reduce conspiracy beliefs ...
Lukasz Stasielowicz
wiley   +1 more source

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