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People's Sense of Security about Crime: Analysis the Brazilian Case

Journal of Finance and Economics

Given the crime has grown in the last's three decades, and that crime reduces the well-being of the individual who constitutes victim, the present study seeks to analyze the determinants of the feeling of security of the people in the city in which it resides, in the year 2009. The estimation of the sense of security was carried out based on the model logit. Among the variables inserted in the model, most of it was significant and presented effect according to economic theory. The factors that presented the most relevant impact were: victim of the robe, resident in the urban area and kind of domicile. It is concluded that, based on the results, the adoption of public policies focused on prevention and combating crime is fundamental, so that the portion of the population that feels insecure reduces, making there an improvement in the quality of life of society regarding wellbeing.

An Exploration of Safety from Crime

Journal of ASIAN behavioural studies, 2018

The feeling of safety from criminal threats has become a critical aspect on the quality of human life. One of the indicators in identifying fear of crime is the feeling of safety (POS) level. The objective of this study is to compare the POS in individual gated residential (IGR) and individual non-gated residential (INGR) areas. This study found that POS is higher in gated residential areas (M=0.90, SD=0.32) compared to IGR areas (M=0.57, SD=0.23). The results show that the rates of income, victimization, fields of employment and periods of residing in the residential areas were significant to the POS.

A metric of the difference between perception of security and victimisation rates

A person's perception of the level of security at a specific location depends on many factors, including past experiences in that location, the actual crime suffered by the population and more. Thus, when the individual perception that a location is insecure becomes the general rule is when the perception of security becomes an attribute of the region rather than the fears of some of its individuals, hence the relevance of aggregating individual perceptions of security into a single regional perception of security. Residents of two different regions, which have the same levels of crime, of a similar nature, may have different perceptions of the level of security. The perception of security associated with a particular place is relevant by itself but is much more useful when compared to the perception of other regions or when the perception changes over time and hence a ranking of the perception levels from different places would be a useful tool. A metric is suggested here to determine first the regional perception of security from a location and then to quantify its relationship with different victimisation rates. We quantify the relationship between the perception of security and different victimisation rates, based on data obtained from Mexico through victimisation surveys.

Urban Security Measures: Are Citizens Sufficiently Informed about and Satisfied with Them?

2023

The aim of this paper is to examine how citizens of the City of Zagreb perceive urban security measures, such as cameras, video surveillance, applications for reporting problems to city services and the police, and how they perceive informing citizens about possible self-protective behaviour and security on the official website of the City of Zagreb and about actions to be taken in crisis situations. The research was conducted on a sample of 3,400 adult citizens of the City of Zagreb, and the sample was segmented according to the 17 city districts, with 200 respondents in each. Respondents filled out, in person and online, a questionnaire consisting of nine sections that examined the perception and feeling of (in)security in the City of Zagreb, satisfaction with the quality of life in the city and the district, and a feeling of accountability and willingness to actively participate in creating a feeling of security and raising the quality of life of citizens in the City of Zagreb. The analysis of the obtained results related to the security of citizens indicates that the respondents consider all measures of urban security of citizens important, and additional analyses have indicated that women, compared to men, assess the importance of measures as higher. The tendency of younger respondents to highlight applications as important urban security measures has also been noted. In addition, people with a lower level of trust in other people are more likely to attach greater importance to urban security measures.

Fear of crime and home security systems

Police Practice and Research, 2012

Survey data of 1549 households in the Mexico City metropolitan area were analyzed to examine the relationship between fear of crime and home security systems. Ordinal regression analysis shows home security systems unrelated to fear of crime when home alone. Additionally, findings are that fear of crime is mostly felt by female, young, low-income individuals, and by those who do not trust their local police. Fear of crime is also felt by individuals living in neighborhoods perceived to be unsafe. Implications of these findings are discussed, and suggestions for police work and future research are also included.

LIVING IN SECURE CITIES: THE PROJECTS ABOUT CITY SECURITY

Cristiana Panseri -University of Milan "For it is wrong to believe that the scale of fears corresponds to that of the dangers that inspire them. One can be afraid of insomnia and not of a serious duel, of a mouse and not of a lion." (Marcel Proust, A' la recherche du temps perdu) "The cities like dreams are made of desires and fears" (Italo Calvino, Le città invisibili)

Subjective and Objective Insecurity in Spanish Cities

Sustainability

This article related crime rates to social risk factors and to the feeling of insecurity in Spain. The first finding of this study, financed by National I + D Plan CSO2016-77549-P, AEI-FEDER, was the direct relation between crime rates and some sociodemographic factors such as population, unemployment, urban land area, and hotel occupancy, based on the question of which social risk factors correlate to crime rates. The second finding was that social factors drive citizens’ feelings of insecurity, according to whether feelings of insecurity are linked to crime rates or perceived risk factors. The research was based on a quantitative methodology, using two data sources: reworked official statistics treated by HJ-Biplot analysis; a 2019 CATI survey with N = 3904, sample error between 5.2% and 3.7% according to territory, 95% confidence level. The main conceptual conclusion of the study was the link between well-being and security. The main methodological contribution was the applicatio...

Developing a model of perceptions of security and insecurity in the context of crime

Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 2020

The current study was carried out as part of the CITYCOP project exploring fear of crime, risk perception and feelings of security and insecurity. Participants (n ¼ 272) from 11 European countries answered a questionnaire exploring measures of risk perception, fear of crime, anxiety, trust in police and related behaviours. A seven-factor structure is proposed incorporating 'Signs of Social and Physical Disorder', 'Trust in Police', 'Trait Anxiety', 'Collective Efficacy', 'Perceived Risk of Victimisation', 'Fear of Personal Harm' and 'Fear of Property Theft'. Overall findings suggest that the measures associated with feelings of insecurity are negatively related to the measures associated with feelings of security. Efforts should be made to reduce feelings of insecurity through encouraging trust in law enforcement and community interaction and reducing signs of social and physical disorder.

Sense of Security among the Residents of Warsaw. Survey Results

Prawo w Działaniu, 2019

In the second decade of the 21st century, Poland manifests a high level of ‘safeguarding’ of people in numerous aspects of their life, while, simultaneously, the crime rate is decreasing and the sense of security is increasing. Paradoxically, it is these ‘safe’ conditions that should induce us to have a closer (or rather more thorough and more focused) look at these issues so as to not miss the possible new sources and types of threats.The article analyses the results of a survey concerning the attitudes, experiences, and fears exhibited by the inhabitants of Poland’s largest city, Warsaw. The scope of the analysis determined in this way allowed the authors to make important comparisons as well as to attempt to diagnose both the ‘old’ (previously analysed and described) and new sources of threats and forms of responding to them.

Neighbourhood, Crime and Fear: Exploring Subjective Perception of Security in Serbia

NBP. Nauka, bezbednost, policija, 2025

The perception of (in)security plays a crucial role in shaping individuals' interactions with their environment and can have significant implications for the prevalence and persistence of criminal activity within communities. Perceived insecurity can lead individuals to fear becoming victims of crime and can affect the willingness of individuals to report crimes to authorities. Furthermore, it can undermine social cohesion within communities by eroding trust and cooperation among residents. The subjective security experience in the neighbourhood is a multifaceted phenomenon influenced by various determinants. Using data from the European Social Survey Round 10, the paper aims to scrutinise the potential factors contributing to feelings of security among the respondents in Serbia. We focus on the respondents' perceptions of security in four regions (Belgrade, Vojvodina, Šumadija and West Serbia, and South and East Serbia) operationalised through the question "How safe do you-or would you-feel walking alone in your neighbourhood after dark?". By examining determinants such as age, gender, daily activity, area (rural or urban), social capital, interpersonal trust and perceived quality of society, this paper aims to shed light on the complexities of security perception. The primary findings underscore the significance of individual vulnerability and social integration measures as critical indicators of security perceptions in the neighbourhoods. The study highlighted notable regional variations in predictors of security perceptions, emphasising the necessity of localised approaches to address security concerns. By comprehensively understanding the determinants of subjective security, policymakers and urban planners can develop targeted strategies to mitigate fear and enhance security perceptions.