Crime and Fear in Public Places : Towards Safe, Inclusive and Sustainable Cities EPUB

Edited by Vania Ceccato, Mahesh Nalla

Part of the Routledge Studies in Crime and Society series

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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 natureâ€”a park, a mall, a train platform or a street cornerâ€”is where people pass by, meet each other and at times become a victim of crime.

With this book, we submit that crime and safety in public places are not issues that can be easily dealt with within the boundaries of a single discipline.

The book aims to illustrate the complexity of patterns of crime and fear in public places with examples of studies on these topics contextualized in different cities and countries around the world.

This is achieved by tackling five cross-cutting themes: the nature of the cityâ€™s environment as a backdrop for crime and fear; the dynamics of individualsâ€™ daily routines and their transit safety; the safety perceptions experienced by those who are most in fear in public places; the metrics of crime and fear; and, finally, examples of current practices in promoting safety.

All these original chapters contribute to our quest for safer, more inclusive, resilient, equitable and sustainable cities and human settlements aligned to the Global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.