In order to survey the relationship between the concepts of the release of high risk offenders and perceived anxiety, strong and distinguished indicators must be used. To be able to distinguish possibly ambiguous variables, this survey has questions that control them so they do not bias the data collected. Such as the first three questions in the survey about the participant’s gender, age and employment. As gender, age and employment could indicate variations in the data that the participants self-report. Moreover this survey uses individual’s beliefs of whether or not one of these offenders will reoffend as an indicator to measure an individual’s assessment of their public safety, consequently their anxiety about it. This indicator is strong
