SECURITY INDEX PERCEPTION STUDY: A REVIEW

Abstract

Nowadays, the rate of criminal threats to countries across the world is increasing which inclusive of different internal and external threats such as extremists, foreigners, smugglers and cybercrime. Many countries took different initiatives to improve the security aspect for their people and countries. Yet, we are still lacking a specific security index that could be used as guidance in measuring the security, safety and national harmony of well-being. Thus, it is important to have a security index as one of the measurement mechanisms in any country. Hence, in this paper, we reviewed the existing security index perception comprehensively and proposed how the security index should be measured. We also presented a preliminary study for Malaysia in this paper. This paper could be used by other researchers with the same interest as guidance for future studies on the security index.