Crime and Violence: Desensitization in Victims to Watching Criminal Events

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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...

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Autores principales: Di Tella, Rafael, Freira, Lucía, Gálvez, Ramiro H., Schargrodsky, Ernesto, Shalom, Diego, Sigman, Mariano
Formato: Documento de trabajo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2025
Materias:
Crimen
Crime
Comportamiento social
Social Behaviour
Ciencias del Comportamiento
Behavioural sciences
Adaptación social
Social adaptation
Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/13351
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spelling I57-R163-20.500.13098-133512025-04-07T23:56:53Z Crime and Violence: Desensitization in Victims to Watching Criminal Events Di Tella, Rafael Freira, Lucía Gálvez, Ramiro H. Schargrodsky, Ernesto Shalom, Diego Sigman, Mariano Crimen Crime Comportamiento social Social Behaviour Ciencias del Comportamiento Behavioural sciences Adaptación social Social adaptation 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. 2025-04-03T16:49:31Z 2017-07-30 info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/13351 eng Di Tella, R., Freira, L., Gálvez, R. H., Schargrodsky, E., Shalom, D., & Sigman, M. (2019). Crime and violence: Desensitization in victims to watching criminal events. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 159, 613–625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.10.005 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es 33 p. application/pdf application/pdf
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topic Crimen
Crime
Comportamiento social
Social Behaviour
Ciencias del Comportamiento
Behavioural sciences
Adaptación social
Social adaptation
spellingShingle Crimen
Crime
Comportamiento social
Social Behaviour
Ciencias del Comportamiento
Behavioural sciences
Adaptación social
Social adaptation
Di Tella, Rafael
Freira, Lucía
Gálvez, Ramiro H.
Schargrodsky, Ernesto
Shalom, Diego
Sigman, Mariano
Crime and Violence: Desensitization in Victims to Watching Criminal Events
topic_facet Crimen
Crime
Comportamiento social
Social Behaviour
Ciencias del Comportamiento
Behavioural sciences
Adaptación social
Social adaptation
description 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.
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author Di Tella, Rafael
Freira, Lucía
Gálvez, Ramiro H.
Schargrodsky, Ernesto
Shalom, Diego
Sigman, Mariano
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title Crime and Violence: Desensitization in Victims to Watching Criminal Events
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title_fullStr Crime and Violence: Desensitization in Victims to Watching Criminal Events
title_full_unstemmed Crime and Violence: Desensitization in Victims to Watching Criminal Events
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