Safety satisfaction in urban communities. A social analysis

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Sociology - Individual, Groups, Society, language: English, abstract: Safety percussions have intense importance in any urban community, living standards are heavily depends on the safety satisfaction of residents. Increasing of population in Urban areas facilitates many deviant behaviors for the citizens, in this era of urbanization the crime rate is increasing day by day due to having less social cohesion among the residents, less community ownership by the residents and lack of proper security infrastructure in the society. According to social disorganization theory, an Urban community can minimize the ratio of criminal activities by applying safety parameters like, proper surveillance of residential areas, increase social cohesion among residents, promote community ownership and develop clean environment of the community. This study was conducted in Judicial housing society in Lahore to examine the after results of security percussions took by the administration of the Judicial housing society according to the perception of its residents. Twenty houses was selected from phase 1 of Judicial housing society from where data was collected from forty respondents (one male and one female from each house). Results revealed that after taking proper security measures by the administration of the society, safety satisfaction level of residents in Judicial housing society increased, where males had slight greater tilt regarding the over all security satisfaction as compare to the females.