PUBLIC SAFETY IN ROMANIA. AN ANALYSIS OF RURAL/URBAN AND REGIONAL PERCEPTION OF SAFETY
PUBLIC SAFETY IN ROMANIA. AN ANALYSIS OF RURAL/URBAN AND REGIONAL PERCEPTION OF SAFETY

Summary/Abstract: As demonstrated in numerous studies, the public’s perception of their own level of safety, but also on the general state of safety has an important role in evaluating the performance of institutions operating in the field of public safety and in establishing their objectives in the medium and long term. This article aims to contribute to the existing literature on the perception of the public safety, emphasizing on Romanian context, as a result of a secondary analysis of the data from the most recent Public Safety Survey, which took place in 2017 and was published in 2018. The article is structured in two main sections: the first section emphasizes on the differences in perception on the level of public safety between rural and urban residents and between residents of the different Romania’s development regions, as well as these differences in population view on the level of victimization from different crimes; the second section is dedicated to the relationship between the feeling of safety in different contexts and perceived level of crime, concern about crime and victimization.

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