Safety
Social safety encompasses all forms of crime and nuisance to which citizens, businesses and organisations may be exposed. It includes not only the actual crime and nuisance experienced, but also how safe people feel.
Crime and nuisance
Crime includes crimes of violence (physical abuse, threats, robbery,
rape), theft (burglary, pickpocketing, shop theft) and vandalism of private
and public goods. Nuisance involves behaviour which is not punishable in
itself, such as young people hanging around on street corners, antisocial
behaviour, littering and verbal abuse, but which is experienced as
objectionable or intimidating.
(Lack of) safety
SCP reports on social safety in its general publications, such as
The Social State of the Netherlands (De Sociale Staat van
Nederland). The emphasis here is on trends in actual crime, as well as
on perceived lack of safety. In addition, SCP publishes thematic studies on
social safety. There are three lines of research:
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Victimhood and perceived lack of safety (facts, backgrounds and determinants of perceived lack of safety).
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Liveability and safety in residential neighbourhoods
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Evaluation of safety policy
Research at SCP
Social safety research at SCP is carried out by the Housing,
Liveability & Safety research group. You will find information here
about recent projects and publications. Other research groups, such as the Public
Services Sector and Participation &
Governance research groups, perform related research.
More information
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Research on social safety is also carried out at a number of Dutch universities, the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement and the Ministry of Justice Research and Documentation Centre.
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Figures on social safety are published by Statistics Netherlands.
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The Centre for Crime Prevention and Safety disseminates scientific knowledge about social safety more broadly.
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