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This book examines the relationship between security and its impact on well being. It offers best practice ideas appropriate to any individual or organization with an interest in security provision from the micro to the meso level.

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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

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Introduction

1. Safety and Subjective Wellbeing: A Perspective from the Australian Unity Wellbeing Index

Robert A. Cummins

2. Terror, Fear and Individual and Community Wellbeing

Anne Aly

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

Renata Franc, Zvjezdana Prizmic-Larsen and Ljiljana Kaliterna Lipovcan

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

Patrícia Jardim da Palma, Miguel Pereira Lopes and Ana Sofia Monteiro

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

Carlos Medina & Jorge Andrés Tamayo

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

Benjamin J. Roberts

7. 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 Andonova8. The Linkages between Insecurity, Health, and Well-being in Latin America: An Initial Exploration Based on Happiness Surveys

Carol Graham and Juan Camilo Chaparro

9. 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 and Ferran Vi¤as

10. 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

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