Overview
- Places safety and security on the urban scale
- Includes global examples
- Illustrates how different disciplines deal with crime, fear of crime and their impacts in social life
- Discusses why gender matters when safe cities are planned
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Placing Fear on the Urban Scale
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Front Matter
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Placing fear on the urban scale
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Micro-Urban Environments of Crime and Fear
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Front Matter
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Micro-urban environments of crime and fear
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Crime, Fear of Crime in Neighbourhoods and Their Effects
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Front Matter
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Crime, fear of crime in neighborhoods and their effects
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The Context of Crime and Fear in Cities of Global South
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Front Matter
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The context of crime and fear in cities of Global South
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Actions for Safe Urban Environments
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Back Matter
Keywords
- City structure
- Crime and urban fortification in South Africa
- Crime in street networks
- Crime prevention
- Fear of crime
- Perceived safety
- Risk and vulnerability
- Safe urban environments
- Social contexts
- Tracking social life and crime
- Turf war in Rio de Janeiro
- Urban crime
- Urban fabric of crime and fear
- Urban offence and offender data
- Urban planning
- Urban security
- Vandalism and fear in neighbourhoods
- landscape/regional and urban planning
- urban geography and urbanism
About this book
How does the city’s urban fabric relate to crime and fear, and how is that fabric affected by crime and fear? Does the urban environment affect one’s decision to commit an offence? Is there a victimisation-related inequality within cities? How do crime and fear interrelate to inequality and segregation in cities of developing countries? What are the challenges to planning cities which are both safe and sustainable? This book searches for answers to these questions in the nature of the city, particularly in the social interactions that take place in urban space distinctively guided by different land uses and people’s activities. In other words, the book deals with the urban fabric of crime and fear. The novelty of the book is to place safety and security issues on the urban scale by (1) showing links between urban structure, and crime and fear, (2) illustrating how different disciplines deal with urban vulnerability to (and fear of) crime (3) including concrete examples of issues and challenges found in European and North American cities, and, without being too extensive, also in cities of the Global South.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Urban Fabric of Crime and Fear
Editors: Vania Ceccato
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4210-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4209-3Published: 22 June 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9792-5Published: 18 July 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4210-9Published: 21 June 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 354
Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Human Geography, Urbanism