In 2014, Americans Feared Walking Alone at Night. Now They’re Worried about Government Corruption
A survey on American fears by Chapman University sociologists has produced some surprisingly frightful results
By Lorraine Boissoneault
smithsonian.com
October 20, 2017 8:57AM
What keeps Americans up at night? For three Chapman University sociologists, the answer turned out to be far more surprising than they’d expected.
Christopher Bader, Edward Day and Ann Gordon started the American Fear Survey in 2014 as a way of finding out whether Americans really understood the state of crime in the United States. Bader and Day specialized in criminology, and knew crime rates had fallen precipitously over the past 20 years—but suspected the average American was far less informed.
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