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  • Moving Safely

    Crime and Perceived Safety in Stockholm's Subway Stations

    by Vania Ceccato ...
    A sustainable city enables the fulfillment of the mobility needs of its citizens via accessible, reliable and safe transportation systems. Safety is one of many factors influencing the mobility of individuals in urban environments. Moving Safely: Crime and Perceived Safety in Stockholm’s Subway Stations aims to provide both theoretical and empirical perspectives on safety conditions at subway ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Rural Criminology in Global Perspective

    State of the Art on the World's Continents

    by Emmanuel Bunei, Alistair Harkness, Rob White, Wendell C. Wallace, Willie Clack, Monica Perez, Vania Ceccato, Rebecca Kaiser, Walter DeKeseredy, Kyle J.D. Mulrooney, Zahidul Islam, Danielle Watson, Joseph F. Donnermeyer, Katja Eman ...
    Series series Research in Rural Crime
    This timely collection crosses international boundaries to highlight criminological issues with a rural focus. Using a variety of different perspectives, the contributors offer lessons from research on rural crime, justice and security from the seven continents with a macroscopic perspective on issues of international concern.The book identifies the global context in which rural crime takes place, ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Systems Thinking for Sustainable Crime Prevention

    Planning for Risky Places

    by Vania Ceccato, Andy Newton ...
    This book offers a comprehensive overview of areas with elevated levels of crime, which we consider ‘risky places.’ These can be facilities, nodes, or paths and can be found everywhere, from small towns to megacities. Crime and fear are examined from the perspective of those who use these places, based on examples from the US, the UK, Sweden, Nigeria, Brazil, China, Australia, and more. Advocating ... Read more

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  • Transit Safety for a Sustainable City

    People, Paths and Places in Railway Stations

    by Vania Ceccato, Catherine Sundling, Gabriel Gliori ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book paves the way for transformative strategies that increase the role of railway stations and other related transit environments in contributing to the global goals for sustainable development (the UN’s sustainability goals in Agenda 2030). Drawing on insights from a Swedish case, this book adopts a systems thinking approach to investigate how environments impact transit safety ... Read more

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  • Crime, Peoples and Places

    Perspectives on Rural Safety and Justice

    Edited by Vania Ceccato, Alistair Harkness ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Rural Criminology
    Building on previous work in rural criminology, this book casts a global and comparative look across 19 countries, drawing on themes of crime and victimisation, safety and fear, practices of policing and police trust, and crime prevention practices.Combining reports on survey findings, country case studies, and crosscutting analyses, Crime, Peoples and Places offers empirical, theoretical, and ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Transit Crime and Sexual Violence in Cities

    International Evidence and Prevention

    Edited by Vania Ceccato, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris ...
    How cities are planned and designed has a major impact on individuals’ mobility and safety. If individuals feel unsafe in public transportation or on the way to it, they may avoid certain routes or particular times of the day. This is problematic, since research has also found that, in some cities, especially those in the Global South, a large percentage of women are "transit captives". Namely, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Crime and Safety in the Rural

    Lessons from research

    by Vania Ceccato, Jonatan Abraham ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Criminology
    Criminology has until recently neglected the nature and levels of crime outside the urban realm. This is not a surprise as crime tends to concentrate in urban areas and the police directs resources where the problems are. Yet, there are many reasons why scholars, decision-makers and society as a whole should care about crime and safety in rural areas. This book highlights 20 reasons why crime and ... Read more

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  • Retail Crime

    International Evidence and Prevention

    Edited by Rachel Armitage, Vania Ceccato ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This edited collection provides an original and comprehensive take on retail crime and its prevention, by combining international data and multidisciplinary perspectives from criminologists, economists, geographers, police officers and other experts. Drawing on environmental criminology theory and situational crime prevention, it focusses on crime and safety in retail environments but also the ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Urban Fabric of Crime and Fear

    Edited by Vania Ceccato ...
    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 ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Rural Crime and Community Safety

    by Vania A Ceccato ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
    Crime is often perceived as an urban issue rather than a problem that occurs in rural areas, but how far is this view tenable? This book explores the relationship between crime and community in rural areas and addresses the notion of safety as part of the community dynamics in such areas.Rural Crime and Community Safety makes a significant contribution to crime science and integrates a range of ... Read more

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  • Crime and Fear in Public Places

    Towards Safe, Inclusive and Sustainable Cities

    Edited by Vania Ceccato, Mahesh K. Nalla ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
    The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429352775 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.No city environment reflects the meaning of urban life better than a public place. A public place, whatever its nature—a park, a mall, a train platform or a street corner—is where people pass by, ... Read more

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