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home increased. No variation over time for cognitive fear of the above
specified crimes, but social decay indicators have increased over time.
The multivariate analysis of the considered indicators over time allow to
identify 6 profiles of individuals according to their safety feelings related to
objective fear of specific crimes, to the social decay of the area where they live,
to the presence of police, and are characterized by demographic
characteristics as sex and age, by the geographical area and by the type of
municipality where they live.
To defend themselves against crimes, families use a wide range of actions
and behaviours: from traditional system as “solidarity among neighbours”, to
the most technological, for example the alarm system. In fact, 72.1% of families
stated that their home is equipped with at least an instrumental protection
system and 55.7% adopt at least one of the defence actions traditional. Overall,
the most widespread are: the security door, by far the system most used
defensive (51.3%), the request to neighbours to control (32.4%), the lights lit
when they go out (27.3%), the lock on the windows (26.4%) and the bars
(23.6%), the lights external with automatic ignition (22.3), the alarm device
(20.8%), insurance against theft (14.5%) and the safe (14%). Only 10.8% of
families claim to have adopted some defensive system for housing following
a theft or a crime immediately while 43% had it installed because they was
afraid to suffer it, also if they are never suffer it. In addition to adopting
defensive strategies to protect housing, the reaction of the population the risk
of victimization is also personal. While traveling, many people do protect them
from the risks of suffering a crime:
- 28% of people, when they walk in the evening on the streets of your
area, try to avoid situations considered at risk, such as some roads,
places or people;
- 39.6% of those who use the car for their journeys are usually in safety
to the doors and finally,
- 7.7% bring something with them to defend themselves or to ask for
help in case of danger. All these attentions are more used by women,
young people and adults and less by the elderly also in relation to the
lower frequency of the latter's exit.
The perception of the risk of crime has an incisive influence on the sense
of loss and discomfort that citizens feel.
We can considers that 33.9% of the population lives in an area that is very
or fairly at risk of crime
with more than 14 years, a decidedly higher figure than the previous survey
(+11.9 points percentages in respect of the previous survey carried out during
2008-2009 years). 23.2% of respondents believe that the level of crime reached
in the area where lives has increased, compared to a year before the interview,
while 7% reported one decrease. People who live in areas considered to be at

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