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Subjective Well-Being and Security

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Editors:
  1. Dave Webb

    1. Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

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  2. Eduardo Wills-Herrera

    1. Bogota, Colombia

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  • Offers one of the first and most comprehensive accounts of the relationship between security and its impact on well being
  • Provides shared practical ideas for security policy makers
  • The pages of this text are rich with best practice ideas that will be appropriate to any individual or organization with an interest in security provision from the micro to the meso levels

Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 46)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Dave Webb, Eduardo Wills-Herrera
    Pages 1-11

  3. Safety and Subjective Well-Being: A Perspective from the Australian Unity Wellbeing Index

    • Robert A. Cummins
    Pages 13-29

  4. Terror, Fear and Individual and Community Well-Being

    • Anne Aly
    Pages 31-43

  5. Personal Security and Fear of Crime as Predictors of Subjective Well-Being

    • Renata Franc, Zvjezdana Prizmic-Larsen, Ljiljana Kaliterna Lipovčan
    Pages 45-67

  6. The Impact of Objective and Subjective Measures of Security on Subjective Well Being: Evidence from Portugal

    • Patrícia Jardim da Palma, Miguel Pereira Lopes, Ana Sofia Monteiro
    Pages 69-89

  7. An Assessment of How Urban Crime and Victimization Affects Life Satisfaction

    • Carlos Medina, Jorge Andrés Tamayo
    Pages 91-147

  8. State of Affliction: Fear of Crime and Quality of Life in South Africa

    • Benjamin J. Roberts
    Pages 149-175

  9. The Relationship Between Perceptions of Insecurity, Social Capital, and Subjective Well-Being: Empirical Evidences from Areas of Rural Conflict in Colombia

    • Eduardo Wills-Herrera, Luz E. Orozco, Clemente Forero-Pineda, Oscar Pardo, Venetta Andonova
    Pages 177-196

  10. The Linkages Between Insecurity, Health, and Well-Being in Latin America: An Initial Exploration Based on Happiness Surveys

    • Carol Graham, Juan Camilo Chaparro
    Pages 197-252

  11. Satisfaction with Present Safety and Future Security as Components of Personal Well-Being Among Young People: Relationships with Other Psychosocial Constructs

    • Mònica González, Ferran Casas, Cristina Figuer, Sara Malo, Ferran Viñas
    Pages 253-290

  12. Security and Well-Being in the Triple Frontier Area of Latin America: Community Awareness of Child Trafficking, the Smuggling of Persons and Sex Tourism

    • Dave Webb, Lia Rodriguez de La Vega
    Pages 291-322

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 323-328
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Keywords

About this book

Security, or the perceived lack thereof, impacts on quality of life at many levels. An important consideration is how security should be best understood. Although definitions of how to understand human security have been proposed, it is not clear how security should be measured. Security can be analyzed from different perspectives i.e., personal security, economic security, health security, political security, cyber security etc. In this volume, all facets of research pertaining to security and subjective well-being (SWB) are discussed, including among others: Objective and subjective measures of security; Multiple security dimensions; The relationship between security and SWB and possible mediators and moderators; Cultural and religious influences on security and SWB; Present and future security; Perceptions of crime in cities and regions and development of relevant indicators; Security in a globalized era and its relationship to SWB; Security, major events and SWB

Editors and Affiliations

  • Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

    Dave Webb

  • Bogota, Colombia

    Eduardo Wills-Herrera

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Subjective Well-Being and Security

  • Editors: Dave Webb, Eduardo Wills-Herrera

  • Series Title: Social Indicators Research Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2278-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2277-4Published: 07 January 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9299-9Published: 22 February 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2278-1Published: 07 January 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1387-6570

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0099

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 328

  • Topics: Quality of Life Research

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