Research into the determining factors involved in creating a sense of security? So much research has already been done into this. That is certainly true, but one important question remains unanswered. The fact that subjective feelings of insecurity and objective crime figures in districts are related to each other, but that they do not in any sense run parallel to each other is well known. But why is this? What causes such feelings more than crime? This was the key question in this background study.