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Risk Perception and Security Attitudes: the Role of Human Values on Brazilian Police Officers and Civilians
| Resumo: | Studies on crime and parking facilities also appear to have a strong focus on car theft with small emphasis on psychological and cognitive variables to investigate potential crimes in this environment. Furthermore, there is limited literature on such crimes in South America, particularly in Brazil. This study has the objective of ofering an instrument to assess risk perception in public and private parking lots of free circulation, as well as to understand and describe how individual values infuence this variable regarding civilians’ and police ofcers’ perception of hazards present in free circulation public and private parking lots. A psychometrically valid risk perception and security attitude scale is presented. The scores of the two groups were predicted by human values. It was observed a mapping of risk situations in parking lots, as well as attitudes that can prevent crimes. Implications for the development of social public safety policies are discussed. |
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| Autores principais: | Torres, Claudio |
| Outros Autores: | Mattos, Marcio; Gomes Nascimento, Thiago; Souza, Wania Cristina; da Silva, Lucas L. |
| Assunto: | Humans Values; Risk Perception; Security Attitude; Criminal Prevention. |
| Ano: | 2022 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | Studies on crime and parking facilities also appear to have a strong focus on car theft with small emphasis on psychological and cognitive variables to investigate potential crimes in this environment. Furthermore, there is limited literature on such crimes in South America, particularly in Brazil. This study has the objective of ofering an instrument to assess risk perception in public and private parking lots of free circulation, as well as to understand and describe how individual values infuence this variable regarding civilians’ and police ofcers’ perception of hazards present in free circulation public and private parking lots. A psychometrically valid risk perception and security attitude scale is presented. The scores of the two groups were predicted by human values. It was observed a mapping of risk situations in parking lots, as well as attitudes that can prevent crimes. Implications for the development of social public safety policies are discussed. |
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