Citizen Security (Towards a radiography of the subjective security in Guadalajara)

Abstract

It is an study concerning citizens’ subjective security or insecurity perception in Guadalajara, from the following three approaches: (a) the results of the national survey on insecurity citizen institute for studies on insecurity (icesi), (b) the imagination of the municipal preventive police from the metropolitan area of Guadalajara about this complex phenomenon, which is included in the project justiciabarómetro, and c) mainly, the qualitative study derivated from the effort tittled Guadalajara’s radiography citizen.

Once centered the work in this last one, the study tries to demostrate that there is a relative correlation between the municipal public quality services and the security/insecurity situation percibed by the residents themselves; in other words, the question is whether the provision of better services has its counterpart in a feeling of safety and security among residents, and if  a deficit or poor quality services, result in an unsafe condition, according to the opinion of the settlers themselves. It is important to point that this relation between subjective security and services, contemplates specially the following services: water, comunication means and electricity, including streer lightning and the streets state