Handbook on Cities and Crime

Edited by Dietrich Oberwittler, Professor of Sociology, Research Group Space, Contexts, and Crime, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Germany and Rebecca Wickes, Professor of Criminology, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University, Australia

• ContentsINTRODUCTION 11 Cities and crime – a perennial perspective on the ecology of crime 2Dietrich Oberwittler and Rebecca WickesPART I THEORETICAL APPROACHES2 Collective efficacy and crime in urban neighbourhoods 19Rebecca Wickes and Charles C. Lanfear3 Disorder, incivilities, and broken windows 41Kevin Drakulich4 Place based and routine activity theories 58Elizabeth R. Groff and Young-An Kim5 Integrative models: merging offender-based and event/place-basedapproaches 77John R. Hipp6 Rethinking the political economy of urban violence and crime 92Juan AlbarracinPART II METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS7 Urban ethnography 108Luca Berardi and Sandra Bucerius8 Micro-places, multi-level frameworks, and modeling the spatial granularityof crime 125Cori Schnell and M. Dylan Spencer9 Advancing perspectives in urban crime studies: computational techniquesand new forms of data 141Reka Solymosi and Aeon Kim10 Neighborhood connectedness and crime using mobility data 162Brian L. Levy and Drew BonnerPART III EXPERIENCES AND ANALYSES OF URBAN CRIME11 City-level drivers of urban violence: identifying key predictors in the past,present and future 181Karen F. Parker and Cresean Hughes12 Immigration and crime around the globe: key findings across a diverserange of contexts 200Charis E. Kubrin and Elliott J. Alvarado13 Urban crime in the global south: the experience of Latin America 220Kees Koonings14 Urban neighborhoods and adolescent delinquency 240Dietrich Oberwittler15 Gentrification and urban crime 262Lyndsay N. Boggess and Lexi Gill16 Crime in the restive city: globalisation, illicit labour and urban change 278Alistair Fraser and Tilman Schwarze17 Hate crime in urban environments: dynamics, causes and consequences 292Kathryn Benier18 The city and collective violence 308Tim Newburn19 Exceptional events and disasters as turning points in place-basedtrajectories of crime 325Jason L. Payne and Cameron T. LangfieldPART IV PERCEPTIONS OF CRIME AND INSECURITIES20 Fear of crime in urban environments 345Michael Chataway, Timothy C. Hart and Jacques Mellberg21 Urban insecurities, fear of crime, and popular culture 361Murray Lee and Alex Simpson22 Safety in cities for girls and women 376Gill Matthewson and Nicole KalmsPART V PREVENTING AND CONTROLLING CRIME IN CITIES23 Crime prevention in the city: a current status and new directions for crimeprevention through environmental design (CPTED) 393Paul Cozens and Frank Stoks24 Urban policing and the problem of street stops 410Ben Bradford and Arabella Kyprianides25 Community-oriented policing and politics: the “other police” incomparative perspective 426Sebastian Roché and Laural Miller26 Crime control in the smart city: the nexus between big data, predictivepolicing, surveillance, and smart nudges 446Lieke Bisschops and Marc Schuilenburg27 Sedimented surveillance in Southeast Asia’s “smart’ city-state: the case ofSingapore 464Orlando Woods, Al Lim and Lily Kong

‘This Handbook contains important contributions from leading scholars studying the ecological distribution of crime. The insights within are deserving of wide attention in criminology and should be studied carefully.’