범죄 명칭이 시민의 위험 인식 및 지각된 위험 특성에 미치는 영향 연구 = The Effects of Crime Labels on Citizen’ Risk Perception and Perceived Risk Characteristics

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This study examined whether differences in crime terminology—mudjima crime, abnormal motive crime, and random crime—influence individuals’ personal and social risk perceptions, and tested the mediating role of perceived risk characteristics. Using an experimental design, 300 adult participants were assigned to one of the three crime terminology conditions, and differences in risk perception were compared across groups. The results showed that crime terminology itself did not have a direct effect on either personal or social risk perception. In contrast, perceived risk characteristics significantly shaped both dimensions of risk perception. Specifically, abnormal motive crime was associated with lower levels of perceived risk characteristics and lower personal and social risk perceptions compared to mudjima crime. Meanwhile, no statistically significant differences were found between mudjima crime and random crime in either perceived risk characteristics or risk perception, suggesting that participants perceived the two terms as referring to a similar criminal phenomenon. These findings indicate that changing crime terminology alone is unlikely to produce meaningful changes in public risk perception, and that proposals to replace mudjima crime require communication strategies that explicitly address the risk characteristics evoked by the terminology in order to achieve substantive policy effects.