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Crime and Violence: Desensitization in Victims to Watching Criminal Events / Rafael Di Tella, Lucia Freira, Ramiro H. Gálvez, Ernesto Schargrodsky, Diego Shalom, Mariano Sigman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Di Tella, Rafael.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w23697.
- NBER working paper series no. w23697
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Crime and Violence
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.
- Summary:
- We study desensitization to crime in a lab experiment by showing footage of criminal acts to a group of subjects, some of whom have been previously victimized. We measure biological markers of stress and behavioral indices of cognitive control before and after treated participants watch a series of real, crime-related videos (while the control group watches non-crime-related videos). Not previously victimized participants exposed to the treatment video show significant changes in cortisol level, heart rate, and measures of cognitive control. Instead, previously victimized individuals who are exposed to the treatment video show biological markers and cognitive performance comparable to those measured in individuals exposed to the control video. These results suggest a phenomenon of desensitization or habituation of victims to crime exposure.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 2017.
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