Sense of Security among the Residents of Warsaw. Survey Results

Abstract

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.