Przestępczość a bezpieczeństwo społeczności lokalnych
Crime and Local Community Safety

Summary/Abstract: Crime is one of the main threats to the security of local communities, thescientific exploration of which may contribute to raising the level of this security bothat the local level as well as nationwide. The aim of this study was twofold. Firstly, todiagnose the level of security of local communities, including in the context of theirmembers’ residence in the vicinity of a person(s) who they know have served a prisonsentence in the past. Secondly, to determine the existence of a relationship betweenthe safety of local communities and the experience of crime, particularly victimisa-tion, among its members. The aim of the research was achieved using the diagnosticsurvey method. The results of the survey indicate that safety in the surveyed localcommunities is at a high level, and the main variable differentiating its level is gen-der. In static terms, the level of women’s security is higher than that men’s, while inprocessual terms, the tendency is opposite. The results of the study do not indicate astatistically significant relationship between safety and residing in the neighbourhoodof a person(s) with a criminal history. In addition, the respondents’ experiences ofcrime, including their victimisation experiences, do not seem to be important in termsof safety. The processual nature of security and the multitude of factors that shapeit indicate the need for a permanent exploration of the research subject and, basedon its results, legislative and organisational actions aimed at increasing the level ofsecurity of local communities

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