City and insecurity feeling creation

The feeling of insecurity characterizes and unites the Western societies of thetwenty-first century. Despite official statistics emphasize a constant reduction ofcrime rates, fear crime is constantly growing. The need of security, thus, becomes animportant request which should be met by local administrators firstly. The paperstarts analyzing the different meanings of urban security for citizens. The severalopinions influence both the demand of security, which is different in every contexts,and the feeling of insecurity experienced by citizens. The media play an importantrole in creating the feeling of insecurity of the citizens, as evidenced in the paper.Finally, the focus is on how the fear of crime changes with reference to theevolution of the social context.