Urban Fabric of Crime and Fear

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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With global case studies, this book traces the interplay between crime, and the fear of crime, and the wider urban fabric. It shows how an urban environment can affect the decision to commit a crime, and how some cityscape have crime and inequality 'built in'.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-07-18
Mått155 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt557 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor354
Upplaga2012
FörlagSpringer
ISBN9789400797925

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Preface.- Chapter outlines.- Introduction: Chapter 1 — The urban fabric of crime and fear: Vania Ceccato.- Part 1 - Placing fear on the urban scale: Chapter 2 - Urban security: whose security? everyday responses to urban fears: Catherine Alexander and Rachel Pain.- Chapter 3 - Urban fear and its roots in place: Jonathan Jackson and Ian Branton-Smith.- Part 2 - Micro-urban environments of crime and fear: Chapter 4 - Safe on the move: the importance of the built environment: Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris.- Chapter 5 - Safety in numbers: high resolution analysis of crime in street networks: Bill Hillier and Ozlem Sahbaz.- Part 3 - Crime, fear of crime in neighborhoods and their effects: Chapter 6 - Ecological analysis of urban offence and offender data: Robert Haining.- Chapter 7 - Tracking social life and crime: Vania Ceccato and Per Olof Wikstrôm.- Chapter 8 - Acts of vandalism and fear in neighbourhoods: do they affect housing prices?: Vania Ceccato and Mats Wilhemsson.- Part 4 - The context of crime and fear in cities of Global South: Chapter 9 - Turf war in Rio de Janeiro: youth, drug traffic, guns and hyper –masculinity: Alba Zaluar.- Chapter 10 - Reconsidering crime and urban fortification in South Africa: Karina Landman.- Part 5 - Actions for safe urban environments: Chapter 11 - Community, security and distributive justice: Nick Tilley.- Chapter 12 - Is Hammarby Sjöstad a model case? crime prevention through environmental design in Stockholm, Sweden: Bo Grönlund.- Chapter 13 - An international perspective of the gender dimension in planning for urban safety: Christian Dymén and Vania Ceccato.