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- Hassler, Jacob
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Where are the people in emergency service planning? : Assessing the geography and equity of access to emergency services in Sweden
- 2024
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Providing high-quality health care to everyone who needs it is a central objective of the Swedish healthcare system. One way in which this goal is broadly pursued is by allocating resources that maximize the geographical coverage of ambulances, aimed at reducing ambulance respons times as much as possible, for as many as possible. However, emergencies tend to be concentrated in space and time and some groups are more likely to require acute health care, implying that supply needs to be tailored to patient demand. This thesis aims to assess spatial and sociodemographic disparities in access to, and demand for, emergency services in Sweden, with a particular focus on emergency health care (EHC) services. It problematizes how supply and demand are measured, and the consequences this may have for the equitability of access to resources and efficient emergency response. Findings indicate that there currently exist spatial and sociodemographic disparities in access to EHC services in Sweden. The risk of requiring an ambulance is shown to be higher for individuals living in rural areas and for older adults in particular. Concomitantly, these groups have particularly poor levels of accessibility. The findings also indicate that the way that demand and accessibility is measured produce different spatial (and temporal) patterns and that commonly employed indicators of performance in policy (population sizes and response times) are shown to be overestimated and underestimated to varying degrees at certain times and in certain places. Such information is important to convey to planners, as inaccurate estimates may entail that planners have poor knowledge on which to base decisions related to resource allocation, which could in turn affect some places and groups negatively. The thesis highlights that currently employed policy goals may inadvertently entail unexpected inequities in terms of varying levels of accessibility to EHC, where resources are not directed towards the places and groups that need them the most. This opens up a discussion of how quantitative measures that underpin planning are always based on certain conceptualizations over other possible conceptualizations. Ultimately, this thesis may contribute to facilitating the planning of more equitable emergency services.
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- Abraham, Jonatan, et al.
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Crime and safety in rural areas : A systematic review of the English-language literature 1980-2020
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Rural Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0743-0167 .- 1873-1392. ; 94, s. 250-273
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the nature and frequency of crimes and people's safety perceptions in rural areas using a systematic review of the literature. It explores four decades of English-language publications on crime and safety in rural areas from several major databases; mainly Scopus, JSTOR and ScienceDirect. The number of retrieved documents was 840, of which 410 were selected for in-depth analysis and their topics later categorized by theme. We found that rural crime research took off after the mid-1980s and experienced an increase during the 2010s. Despite the domination by North American, British and Australian scholarship, studies from other parts of the world (including the Global South) are increasingly being published as well. Publications on rural crime patterns (e.g., farm crime) compose over one-fifth of the reviewed literature. This together with rural policing/criminal justice and violence constitute the three largest themes in rural criminology research. With ever-increasing links between the local and the global, this review article advocates for tailored multilevel responses to rural crimes that, more than ever, are generated by processes far beyond their localities.
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- Almeida, Franklin, et al.
(författare)
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Análise temporal de roubos e furtos a residência em Cuiabá, Brasil
- 2023
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Ingår i: Revista Brasileira de Segurança Pública. - : Revista Brasileira de Seguranca Publica. - 1981-1659 .- 2595-0258. ; 17:1, s. 208-231
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- O presente estudo analisa a influência dos fatores temporais na dinâmica dos crimes de roubo e furto à residência no município de Cuiabá/MT. Para isso, toma como base teórica e estrutura de orientação as teorias da atividade rotineira e da escolha racional. Apesar de analisar a distribuição de tais crimes por ano, mês, estação do ano, dia da semana e período do dia, os resultados estatísticos apenas apontam que os roubos são mais concentrados no período noturno. Todavia, a pesquisa indica que os crimes de roubo e furto à residência possuem padrões temporais específicos, o que é de grande importância para embasar as políticas de segurança pública na cidade, as quais deverão adotar, por exemplo, variadas estratégias de prevenção para diferentes períodos do dia e do ano.
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- Aransiola, Temidayo James, et al.
(författare)
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Growth of Lethal Violence in Brazil 2000–2017 : A Space-Temporal Analysis of Homicides
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. - : SAGE Publications Inc. - 1043-9862 .- 1552-5406. ; 38:1, s. 34-55
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates the space-temporal growth of homicide rates in Brazil from 2000 to 2017 and identifies determinants of the country?s growth of homicide rates. Data from the Brazilian Information System on Mortality and Censuses are used to estimate growth models combined with spatial statistics and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Findings show evidence of change in the geographical distribution of lethal violence over time, characterized by a steady increase in the North and Northeast regions and a reduction in growth in the South and Southeast regions of Brazil. Social disorganization factors namely deprivation, ethnic heterogeneity, and urbanization are significant positive determinants of the growth of homicide rates. The results show a reduction of the predictive strength of income inequality and an increase in that of unemployment from the year 2010 to 2017. The theoretical and policy implications of these results are discussed.
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- Aransiola, Temidayo James, et al.
(författare)
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The Commodification of Security in Brazil: Urban–Rural Divide in Household Adoption of Safety Protective Devices
- 2022
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Ingår i: Professional Geographer. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0033-0124 .- 1467-9272. ; , s. 1-13
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study aims to assess the determinants of using safety devices in Brazilian households, taking into account different urban–rural country contexts and income distribution. Probit models are estimated using microdata from the 2009 Brazilian National Household Sampling Survey. On average, less than half of the underprivileged population adopts safety devices, whereas almost double as many do so among the wealthy. Findings also indicate an inverse association between the level of urbanization and adoption of safety protective devices, especially of modern ones—a pattern mediated by individual levels of victimization and safety perceptions. For example, previous victimization by theft or robbery is more decisive for adopting safety protective devices among economically underprivileged households compared to wealthier ones. These results provide evidence of the perverse effects of unequal commodification of security across a country that penalizes, in particular, the rural poor.
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- Aransiola, Temidayo James, et al.
(författare)
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The Effect of Absolute and Relative Deprivation on Homicides in Brazil
- 2021
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Ingår i: Homicide Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 1088-7679 .- 1552-6720. ; 25:4, s. 361-386
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper investigates the effect of absolute deprivation (proxy unemployment)and relative deprivation (proxy income inequality) on homicide levels in Brazil. Adatabase from the Brazilian Information System about Mortality and Census of theyear 2000 and 2010 was used to estimate negative binomial models of homicidelevels controlling for socioeconomic, demographic, and geographic factors. Findingsshow that unemployment and income inequality affect homicides levels and that theeffect of the former is more pronounced compared to the latter. Moreover, thecombination of income inequality and unemployment exacerbates the overall effectof deprivation on homicide levels.
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- Ariel, Barak, et al.
(författare)
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Experiences and Reporting of Unwanted Sexual Behaviors on Great Britain’s Rail Network : A Survey of Victims and Witnesses with an Embedded Randomized Vignette Experiment on Callback Effects
- 2024
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Ingår i: Victims & Offenders. - : Routledge. - 1556-4886 .- 1556-4991. ; , s. 1-30
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Unwanted-sexual-behaviors (USBs) on Great Britain’s rail network, though often seen as “lesser-harm” incidents, have profound psychological, emotional, and behavioral impacts on victims and witnesses. A national survey reveals these effects, highlighting the traumatizing effect of USBs, even years later. Victims share their dissatisfaction with reporting USBs and the need for empathetic communication in victim recovery and trust in authorities. The study also examines the impact of reassurance callbacks from police. While a single callback enhanced perceptions of safety and police effectiveness, multiple callbacks were favored, suggesting their potential to improve victim support and confidence in law enforcement responses to USBs.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
(författare)
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"Apps on the street" En ny tids vakande ögon
- 2019
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Ingår i: Samhällsbyggandet som mysterium – Jane Jacobs idéer om människor, städer och ekonomier. - : Nordic Academic Press.
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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| 10. |
- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-, et al.
(författare)
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Cannabisbruk och langning i Stockholms län : Situationella mönster och samhällskonsekvenser
- 2022
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Syftet med studien är att kartlägga de situationer där cannabisanvändning och överlåtelse skeri Stockholmsregionen. Vi undersöker också kopplingen mellan cannabisrelaterade brott ochsamhällskonsekvenser på lokal nivå, till exempel på bostadsmarknaden.Med hjälp av data från Polisregion Stockholms polisregister undersöker vi om brotten hadehögre sannolikhet att ske i särskilda stadsmiljöer. Dessutom rapporterar vi tidsmässiga ochrumsliga egenskaper av alla cannabisrelaterade brott i Stockholmsregionen (bruk, innehav ochhandel) med hjälp av registerdata från Polisens nationellt forensiskt centrum (NFC), som täckeråren 2019–2020. Studien utnyttjar geografiska informationssystem (GIS) och spatialaregressionsmodeller (i) för en bättre förståelse för geografin av cannabisrelaterade brott. Olikaoffentliga typer av markanvändning (t.ex. parker, transportknutpunkter och skolor) ställs ocksåi relation till cannabisrelaterade brott, efter att ha kontrollerat för demografiska,socioekonomiska och lokaliseringsbaserade faktorer. Vi avslutar rapporten med ett antal rekommendationer för både forskning och praktik. Eftersomcannabisinnehav och langning inte visar samma brottsgeografi, är det viktigt att komma ihågatt åtgärder behöver vara specifika för de olika brotten. När det gäller langning är en ökadnaturlig övervakning och tillsyn av de platser där brotten sker en viktig del av detcannabisförebyggande arbetet. Även platsansvariga, som hyresvärdar, skolpersonal ochstationspersonal, kan påverka såväl privata som offentliga miljöer där cannabisbrott sker.Tillgång och efterfrågan av cannabis finns alltså på olika platser, vilket är viktiga pusselbitarför brottsförebyggande arbete och bevakning. Långsiktiga satsningar på områden med högbrottslighet är också viktiga för att förebygga förfallspiralen, som annars förstärker de socialaproblemen som redan finns i dessa områden.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-, et al.
(författare)
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Changing environments to promote safety in libraries
- 2024
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Ingår i: European Journal of Criminology. - : SAGE Publications. - 1477-3708 .- 1741-2609.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this article is to investigate how changes in the environment of a library affect thesafety conditions of both visitors and staff. Using principles of Crime Prevention ThroughEnvironmental Design, crime and incidents of public disturbance from 2017 to 2020 from librariesin Stockholm, Sweden, are analyzed and later mapped using 3D models in CAD. These findings areinspected via fieldwork visits and then compared with answers from a safety survey with libraryvisitors (N=112) and interviews with library personnel (N=6). Analysis of variance shows thatcrime and incidents of public disturbance decrease after these interventions, with clear impactson their geography. A third of visitors indicate that there have been fewer problems after changes in the library are introduced while staff suggests that training prepares them to manage conflictsituations more efficiently. The study concludes with a critical assessment of the methodologyand makes suggestions to improve safety conditions in libraries.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
(författare)
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Chapter 1 - Aim, scope, and book structure
- 2015
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Ingår i: Rural crime and community safety. - London & New York : Routledge. ; , s. 3-7
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book is about crime and community safety in rural areas. Crime is oftenregarded as an urban rather than a rural issue. Is this because rural areas are saferthan urban areas? We suggest in this book that even if they are, this is just apartial view of what safety in rural communities is or what it is perceived to be.The relationship between crime and community characteristics is complex,determined by a set of interdependent factors that, together, create nuanced differencesof what is thought to be safety in rural areas. The chapter defines theaim, scope, and structure of the book.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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Chapter 1 - Crime and fear in public places : Aim, scope and context
- 2020
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Ingår i: Crime and Fear in Public Places. - London & New York : Routledge. ; , s. 3-15
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Abstract This chapter provides an introduction to the theme of crime and fear in public places, the book scope, steps taken in the making of the book, key definitions, and the synopsis of the chapters. This chapter also illustrates how this edited volume contributes to the current knowledge by examining the evidence of victimization and fear in public places from an interdisciplinary perspective with examples from the Global North-South contexts, considering theories at the crossroads of several disciplines.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
(författare)
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Chapter 10 - Violence against women in rural communities
- 2015
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Ingår i: Rural crime and community safety. - London & New York : Routledge. ; , s. 226-254
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Place is a predictor of victimization. Crime more often happens in places other thanin the private sphere. For women, however, the home tends to be more dangerousthan any other place. Women are threatened and assaulted most often where theyreside, by someone they know, in acts often classified as “violence againstwomen.” In rural areas, women are less likely to report this kind of violence, fornumerous reasons. For instance, long distances create isolation to a greater degreethan in urban areas. This chapter points out the barriers women living in rural areasface when reporting violence, particularly when the perpetrator is known to thevictim. This is followed by a brief discussion of international urban–rural trends inrates of violence against women. Then, the chapter provides a basis for the analysisof the Swedish case by presenting a list of individual and structural factors that aredeterminants of violence against women in rural areas.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
(författare)
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Chapter 11 - Police, rural policing, and community safety
- 2015
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Ingår i: Rural crime and community safety. - London & New York : Routledge. ; , s. 259-291
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- One reason this chapter is devoted to rural policing is the difference in policework and organization. More than 40 years ago, Cain (1973) highlighted the distinctivenessof rural policing, with its isolating and lonesome nature, and thedependence on one’s neighbors and community within which the police lived.Rural crime issues are very different nowadays from those in the 1970s, and certainlyrurality is a complex mix that imposes new demands on policing that gobeyond issues of remoteness and isolation. Policing is no longer a job for thepublic police force only. Yet “(t)here has always been, and still is, a differencebetween police work and organization in urban and rural areas” (Furuhagen,2009, p. 13)Mawby (2011) suggests that in many countries only a small proportion ofpolicing is carried out by police officers especially trained by the central or localgovernment. Alternative policing has not emerged at pace with this change orevenly distributed across or within countries. This chapter starts with an internationaloverview of what the police have been, with particular focus on thehistorical development of the rural police as an institution. This is an importantsubject, as Mawby and Yarwood (2011, p. 1) suggest “studies of rural policinghave fallen off the edge of many research agendas.” This chapter also provides adetailed history of the development of policing in Swedish rural areas and discussesexamples of the contemporary daily work of police with crime, crime prevention,and community safety, focusing on Sweden. Then, the chapter ends with a discussion of future challenges for policing in the Swedish countryside, asthe commodification of policing has become a reality and the police organizationis being centralized.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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Chapter 12 - Prevention of farm crimes andcrimes against nature
- 2015
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Ingår i: Rural crime and community safety. - London & New York : Routledge. ; , s. 293-322
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter takes the issues of Chapter 8 forward by discussing the main crimeprevention initiatives related to farm crimes and environmental and wildlifecrimes (EWC). These crimes and their prevention are rarely in the headlines,which is not surprising given that in most countries crime control and preventionstrategies focus on big-city problems. The role of community in dealing withfarm crime and EWC in rural municipalities through crime prevention initiativesis given special attention. First, farm crimes and EWCs are framed taking intoaccount a selection of international studies followed by examples from Sweden.Then the chapter turns to new forms of surveillance and protest against farmcrime and EWC using ICT and social media.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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Chapter 13 - Crime prevention in rural areas: Youth-related challenges
- 2015
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Ingår i: Rural crime and community safety. - London & New York : Routledge. ; , s. 323-345
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- To frame the Swedish case, this chapter briefly reviews some of the currentinternational literature in criminology on crime prevention activities aimed atyouth in rural settings. The role of community in dealing with the problem inrural municipalities through crime prevention initiatives is given special attention.The chapter closes with examples from the Swedish rural context and concludingremarks.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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Chapter 14 - Challenges to preventing womenabuse in rural communities
- 2015
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Ingår i: Rural crime and community safety. - London & New York : Routledge. ; , s. 346-375
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The purpose of this chapter is twofold. First, the chapter discusses the actionsunder way to address violence against women in Sweden, following the conclusionsabout violence against women presented in Chapter 10. To frame theSwedish case, this chapter briefly reviews some of the current international literaturein criminology on actions countering violence against women. Particularfocus is on the role of the community through crime prevention initiatives totackle the problem in rural municipalities. Secondary data, email surveys, mediaexcerpts, and face-to-face interviews are used to illustrate current initiatives toprevent violence against women in rural settings. The chapter concludes withexamples of good practice in Swedish rural contexts and closing remarks.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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Chapter 15 - Lessons from rural Sweden and looking ahead
- 2015
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Ingår i: Rural crime and community safety. - London & New York : Routledge. ; , s. 379-389
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter brings together the content of this book and gives an overview ofthe main conclusions drawn. This chapter pays special attention to issues ofyouth in rural areas, farm crime, and crime against environment and wildlife, aswell as cases of violence against women, with particular focus on Swedish ruralareas. Crosscutting issues are summarized in this chapter before new researchfrontiers are suggested and conclusions drawn.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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Chapter 2 Crime and safety in rural areas
- 2015. - 8
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Ingår i: Rural crime and community safety. - New York and London : Routledge. ; , s. 26-26
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter starts by listing 10 reasons why crime and safety in rural areas is asubject worth examining in its own right. These 10 reasons guide the themes discussedin this book and are developed in detail in Chapters 3–14.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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Chapter 2 - The circumstances of crime and fear in public places : A review of theories
- 2020
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Ingår i: Crime and Fear in Public Places. - London & New York : Routledge. ; , s. 17-36
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This theoretical review is intended to support the analysis of the empirical research illustrated in the five cross-cutting themes of the book derived from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines. We begin by discussing the concept of public places in relation to the dynamics of urban crime and fear. Then, we concentrate on those aspects considered salient to the major components of the book: the city environment, people’s mobility, users’ perspective, metrics of crime and, fear and, intervention.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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Chapter 21 Safety in the making : An assessment of urban planners’practices in municipalities in Sweden
- 2020
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Ingår i: Crime and Fear in Public Places. - London & New York : Routledge. ; , s. 401-416
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A central issue in urban planning is how to ensure good references for decisions and processes that lead to the design and planning of safe public environments. Despite increasing safety challenges in cities in the Nordic countries, knowledge is lacking about municipalities’ work with safety issues in daily planning practices. This chapter makes a contribution to this knowledge base by reporting the answers from surveys collected from 85% of municipalities in Sweden in 2019. The focus is on the incorporation of situational crime prevention principles into planning practices, in particular, crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED). Findings from the data analysis reveals differences in answers from planners working in urban and rural municipalities. Findings show that planners believe that safety is an important issue, but how it is dealt with in these municipalities vary greatly
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-, et al.
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Chapter 22 - Crime and fear in public places : A global look
- 2020
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Ingår i: Crime and Fear in Public Places. - London & New York : Routledge. ; , s. 419-432
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this chapter, we synthesize and critically review some of the key findings based on each chapter and subsequently, on the five cross-sectional themes. We identify relevant lessons and challenges that emerge from a variety of research fields dealing with crime and fear in public places in different country contexts.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-, et al.
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Chapter 23 - Responding to crime and fear in public places : Towards an agenda for researchand practice
- 2020
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Ingår i: Crime and Fear in Public Places. - London & New York : Routledge. ; , s. 433-440
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Using the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals as a reference, this chapter draws from all contributions to this volume to propose recommendations on how to respond to crime and fear of crime in public places and to set out a new research agenda. Then we outline a series of suggestions for how to address safety issues in public places through design and policies—first based on the contributions of the book and subsequently on the UN-Habitat Safer Cities program.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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Chapter 3 Definitions, theory, and researchmaking in rural Sweden
- 2015
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Ingår i: Rural crime and community safety. - London & New York : Informa UK Limited. ; , s. 21-60
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter has four sections. The first section offers a number of basic definitionsin rural criminology used in this book. In some cases, several definitionsare put forward instead of assuming a single definition. The case of “rural” providesan example of this approach. The second section is devoted to a number oftheories that provide the theoretical basis for the book. Each theory is introducedin a way that highlights its importance for rural studies, particularly on crime,perceived safety, and crime prevention. In the third section, the chapter takes apractical turn and focuses on the making of research on crime and safety in ruralareas. This section discusses issues of measurement and data quality that areused later in the book. Finally, in the fourth section Sweden is introduced asstudy area.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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Chapter 3 - The architecture of crime and fear of crime : Research evidence on lighting,CCTV and CPTED features1
- 2020
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Ingår i: Crime and Fear in Public Places. - London & New York : Routledge. ; , s. 38-71
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this chapter is to discuss the evidence in the international literature of the effects of urban design features on safety. More specifically, this research examines the relationship between features such as lighting and CCTV to the occurrence of crime and/or individuals’ safety perceptions. Potential unexpected side effects of these features on a city’s overall quality are also discussed. To achieve these goals, the literature from 1968 to 2018 was searched using as references the Scopus, Web of Science, and JSTOR databases. A bibliometric visualization software (VOSviewer) was used to manage and map the vast material, spanning more than five decades of research, on crime and fear of crime. This pre-selection of topics was thought to be relevant for further investigation in an in-depth analysis of the 106 articles. The chapter identifies gaps in the literature and suggestions for a research agenda and practice.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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CHapter 4 - Do green areas affect crime and safety?
- 2020
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Ingår i: Crime and Fear in Public Places. - London & New York : Routledge. ; , s. 75-106
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this chapter is to identify and assess the nature of published, peer-reviewed literature in English on the relationship between green areas (parks, forests, neighborhood parks, green vacant land, interstitial spaces) and crime and perceived safety. This goal is achieved by performing a systematic literature overview from 1968 to 2018 from the major databases and respond to the following questions: (1) Which are the most common types of the green areas associated with crime and/or poor perceived safety in the international literature? (2) Do green areas affect the occurrence of crime and disorder, and if so, how? (3) Do green areas impact on perceived safety and, if so, what are the mechanisms? The chapters concludes with a discussion of policy and research recommendations.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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Chapter 5 - The geography of property andviolent crimes in Sweden
- 2015
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Ingår i: Rural crime and community safety. - London & New York : Routledge. ; , s. 93-118
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Chapter 5 starts showing the changing rates and geography of a selected groupof offenses by municipalities in Sweden. Police records are used as the mainsource of the analysis but reference is also made as much as possible to theNational Crime Victim Surveys. This chapter aims at improving the knowledgebase regarding the rates and spatial distribution of crimes in Sweden. Focus isgiven to shifts in geography between rural (remote and accessible) and to urbanmunicipalities (especially Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö), and vice versa.Geographical information systems (GIS) and spatial statistics techniques areused to assess concentration of thefts and violence. There is an inequality in victimizationthat is worth highlighting as trends in crime may impress differentgeographies in space.Which are the main factors behind the geography of crime in Sweden? Arethese factors in urban areas different from the ones found in rural municipalities?Following the main strand of theories in environmental criminology, the secondsection of this chapter searches for factors that can explain the spatial arrangementof crime. Crime rates are modeled cross-sectionally as a function of themunicipalities’ structural indicators, such as demography, socioeconomic conditions,and lifestyles. Note that this chapter is based on previous work publishedby the author with the criminologist Lars Dolmén in 20111 but it makes an effortto take distance from the previous study by expanding the analysis, includingdetailed analysis of property crime and updating the violence section with newstatistics. The chapter ends with a discussion of unanswered questions about thegeography of crime in Sweden and the methodological challenges of analysingthe regional distribution of crime using police recorded data at municipal level.Finally, a relevant issue that is also discussed in the final section of this chapteris the adequacy of current criminological theory in supporting the analysis ofcrime dynamics that go beyond the urban and/or neighborhood contexts.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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Chapter 6 - The nature of perceived safety inrural areas
- 2015
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Ingår i: Rural crime and community safety. - London & New York : Routledge. ; , s. 121-136
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Imagine that some farmers declare they are worried about having their livestockstolen. Should this be enough to influence crime prevention efforts by the localpolice force? Or consider the case of a woman who is in fear because of constantthreats from her violent partner. Should her fear be taken seriously by workers insocial services or the police to avoid something more serious happening?Fear of crime is not typically considered a conventional policing matter andseems to be even less of an issue in rural communities. One reason for thisneglect is that the police, as well as those who devote their time to crime prevention,often work reactively, requiring an offense to be committed before anyaction can be taken. Another problem is that fear (of crime) may be triggered bythe trauma of victimization, though that is not its only source. Anxieties are fedby multi-scale factors. This chapter examines how the multifaceted nature of fearmakes perceived safety a difficult issue to tackle. Instead of denying such complexity,this chapter attempts to provide examples of how such anxieties formand are associated with the fear of crime in rural environments in Sweden. “Perceivedsafety” is a general concept used in this chapter to characterize both fearof crime and other overall anxieties, often measured by safety and crime victims’surveys.Lack of perceived safety – or, more specifically, fear of crime – has been thesubject of interdisciplinary research for many decades, but the results are farfrom unproblematic. Crime victims’ surveys and interviews are often the basisof this type of research, which has been criticized for offering a shallow pictureof what fear is actually is. This chapter examines fear as an informative resourcethat may improve quality of life for those living in rural communities. If fear is areflection of everyday life experiences, what are those experiences in ruralcommunities?
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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Chapter 7 - Perceived safety in Swedish ruralareas
- 2015
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Ingår i: Rural crime and community safety. - London : Routledge. ; , s. 137-162
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- People fear crime less in rural areas than they do in urban areas. It is submittedthat this fact represents a partial picture of perceived safety, because people canfear greatly even if they perceive a slim likelihood of crime actually occurring.In this chapter, instead of reducing the issue of perceived safety to risk of victimization,the discussion is placed in a broader context with particular attentionto rural areas in Sweden. As previously stated, “perceived safety” is a generalconcept used in this book to characterize both fear of crime and other overallanxieties captured by different indicators of fear and anxiety. The chapter looksbeyond actual statistics of perceived safety between rural and urban areas inorder to shed light on the nature of fear among people living in rural areas. Thechapter includes critical analysis of two examples of expression of fear in relationto the process of othering in the Swedish country side: Sami youth (the oldother), followed by the berry pickers (the new other). In order to illustrate inmore detail patterns of perceived safety, two non-metropolitan municipalities:Jönköping and Söderköping are discussed in this chapter. The chapter closeswith suggestions for possible further research on fear of crime in rural contexts.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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Chapter 8 - Farm crimes and environmental and wildlife offenses
- 2015
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Ingår i: Rural crime and community safety. - London & New York : Routledge. ; , s. 166-194
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter deals with two topics that are relatively neglected areas of researchin the criminological literature: farm crime, and environmental and wildlifecrime. The chapter has two sections, and both place Sweden in an internationalcontext. These offenses involve from diesel theft to drug manufacture, but alsocases of crimes and harm against nature, such as illegal hunting. They presenttrends over time using Swedish police statistics and, data permitting, alternativedata sources. Finally, geographical patterns of environmental and wildlife crimes(EWC) are discussed focusing mostly on urban–rural differences.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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Chapter 9 - Youth in rural areas
- 2015
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Ingår i: Rural crime and community safety. - London & New York : Routledge. ; , s. 196-225
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Young people are vital for any type of society – but certainly more important forrural communities as their future depends on them. If young people cannot continueliving in these communities, the demand for services and other types ofconsumption decreases, and consequently the community breaks down. Paradoxically,young people are far too often seen as a source of local problems.This chapter attempts to characterize both sides of this coin using available officialstatistics. It starts with demographic, socioeconomic, and lifestyle differencesamong young individuals in Sweden as background for understandingregional differences in offending and victimization among youth. This is followedby a discussion of factors associated with youth crime and victimizationin rural areas; apparently they are similar to those in urban areas. As much aspossible, the Swedish case is compared with the international literature, oftenfrom examples coming from British and North American research. The systemicnature of criminogenic conditions that is relevant for small municipalities inSweden is exemplified here by two phenomena.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-, et al.
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Comparing responses from a paper-based survey with a web-based survey in environmental criminology
- 2024
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Ingår i: Crime Prevention & Community Safety. - : Palgrave Macmillan. - 1460-3780 .- 1743-4629. ; 26:2, s. 216-243
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article aims to compare the pattern of responses obtained by a web-based and a paper-based survey used to investigate the transit safety of travellers in railway stations in Sweden. This aim is achieved by evaluating whether the response and the completion rates change as the surveys progress, assessing the effect of the survey mode on respondents' answers (after controlling for the surveys' internal consistency and differences in the samples), and the potential impact of the order of alternatives in multiple-choice questions on the responses. To carry out the study, a sample of 500 responses was taken from each population and later compared using a series of statistical tests. Findings indicate that despite the surveys' high internal consistency, the prevalence of victimisation, fear of crime, and precautions detected in the web survey was higher than those found in the paper survey. The web survey shows a major drop just after the initial questions, while the paper survey shows a more stable pattern of responses, but was also affected by a single compulsory question that pushed the completion rate down. Finally, the order of alternatives in multiple-choice questions (fixed or random) did not affect the answers given by the respondents, providing a solid base for safety interventions in transit environments, regardless of survey mode. The article concludes by making suggestions for both research and practice.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-, et al.
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Crime against trading : The case of cargo theft in São Paulo state, Brazil
- 2017
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Ingår i: Retail crime. - : Springer.
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this chapter is to provide a general picture of cargo theft in Brazil, focusing on the nature of the crime and its temporal-spatial distribution in São Paulo, one of the most economically dynamic states of the country. The study makes use of multiple datasets from 2001 to 2016. Findings show signs that cargo theft has indirect connections with retail as most stolen goods are foods, drinks, electronics, tobacco and pharmaceuticals. Most incidents occur during weekdays when most retail and service establishments are operating. Although the São Paulo state capital shows the highest levels of cargo theft, it is in non-metropolitan areas that records of this offence are on the rise. Intra-state patterns show a convergence tendency of cargo theft levels over time between São Paulo’s metropolitan area and non-metropolitan municipalities. The chapter finalizes suggesting a research agenda to improve the understanding of the phenomenon and its prevention.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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Crime and Safety in the Rural : Lessons from research
- 2022
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this book is to demonstrate the importanceof crime and safety in areas on the rural-urban continuum in general, and froma social sustainability perspective in particular. This aim is achieved by first outlining20 reasons as to why crime and safety matter, which also serves to delineate thefield of research and illustrate its complexity, with many interdisciplinary ramifications.Then, by reviewing the international literature, the book reports four decadesof English-language studies within the field and, finally, presents a research agendawhich takes into consideration emergent areas of research, implications for practice,and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Expanding our knowledgeon rural crime and safety is not only an important step for the future of criminology,but a prerequisite for ever obtaining a truly sustainable society.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-, et al.
(författare)
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Crime and safety in transit environments : A systematic review of the English and the French literature, 1970-2020
- 2022
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Ingår i: Public Transport. - : Springer. - 1866-749X .- 1613-7159. ; 14:1, s. 105-153
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article reviews five decades of English and French literature on transit safety in several major databases, with the focus on Scopus and ScienceDirect. The review explores the nature and frequency of transit crime and passengers' safety perceptions in transport nodes and along the trip using bibliometric analysis and a systematic review of the literature. The number of retrieved documents was 3137, and 245 were selected for in-depth analysis. Transit safety as a research area took off after the mid-1990s and peaked after the 2010s. The body of research is dominated by the English-language literature (mostly large cities), with a focus on the safety of rail-bound environments and examples of interventions to improve actual and perceived safety for public transportation (PT) users. Highlighting the importance of transit environments along the whole trip, the article also helps advocate for more inclusion of passengers' safety needs and the involvement of multiple stakeholders in implementing PT policies.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-, et al.
(författare)
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Crime at micro-places in public libraries
- 2023
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Ingår i: Security Journal. - 0955-1662 .- 1743-4645.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Public libraries are multifunctional places where visitors come to borrow books, usecomputers and socialise—all these activities impose a diverse set of safety demandson those responsible for these facilities. Drawing from environmental criminologyand CPTED principles, this study proposes and tests a conceptual model to investigate the spatiotemporal nature of crime and other safety-related incidents in publiclibraries. Incidents recorded by personnel from 2017 to 2020 from two public libraries in Stockholm, Sweden are mapped using a three-dimensional model in CAD andcompared with notes from feldwork inspections and interviews with library personnel. Findings show that staf feel safe in the library, but mention unsafe situationsthat they avoid by taking precautionary measures. In addition, public disturbances,aggression, followed by crimes against property and vandalism vary both temporallyand across diferent types of library environments. The design and layout of public libraries play a role in the libraries’ safety conditions (e.g. territoriality, surveillance opportunities), but some places are more challenging than others because ofthe activities they attract (e.g. entrances). The study concludes by critically assessing the proposed methodology and making suggestions to improve safety in publiclibraries and advance the role of place managers in multifunctional places.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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Crime in Sao Paulo’s metro system: sexual crimes against women
- 2017
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Ingår i: Crime Prevention & Community Safety. - : Springer. - 1460-3780 .- 1743-4629. ; 19, s. 211-226
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article investigates personal safety conditions in the Sa˜o Paulo metro,the largest rapid transit system in Brazil. The study looks at all types of crimes, butdevotes special attention to the nature and spatio-temporal dynamics of sexualcrimes against women while in transit. The methodology combines GeographicalInformation System and crime records with data collected using Google Street Viewand other secondary data into a set of regression models. Findings show that sexualviolence is concentrated at the busiest central stations; it often takes place during themorning and afternoon rush hours, and at stations that also attract all sorts ofviolence and events of public disorder. The study finalises with an analysis of themetro’s current prevention practices targeting women’s sexual victimisation.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-, et al.
(författare)
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Crimes Against Animal Production : Exploring the use of Media Archives
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Criminal Justice Review. - : SAGE Publications. - 1057-5677 .- 1556-3855. ; 31:4, s. 384-404
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Swedish media have revealed an increase in crimes against animal production (CAAP) in the last decade. We investigate the nature of such crimes (especially against mink, pig, and rabbit farms), with a focus on those crimes whose suspects are animal rights groups by utilizing data from media archives from 2009 to 2019. Newspaper articles show that while vandalism and trespassing are often committed against mink farms, property crimes occur more often against pig and rabbit farms. Because there are indications that crime suspects are not a homogeneous group and express different motivations to commit CAAP, a multipronged approach is needed to prevent CAAP. The use of newspaper articles from media archives has proven to be successful for obtaining a general perspective of CAAP, but it is limited for capturing crime incidence or for investigating CAAP spatiotemporal nature when using geographical information systems. The automated usage of digital media archives should be further explored and critically assessed in future research in criminology.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-, et al.
(författare)
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Defecation, littering and other acts of public disturbance in pandemic times : A study of a Scandinavian city
- 2023
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Ingår i: Cities. - : Elsevier BV. - 0264-2751 .- 1873-6084. ; 141, s. 104456-104456
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The spatiotemporal patterns of public disturbance acts are investigated in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.Using crowdsourced data, the number of records is compared 15 months before and after the stay-at-homemeasures of the COVID-19 pandemic, controlling for seasonal trends. Poisson-Gamma-CAR regression modelsare implemented to assess the potential impact of land use on the spatial distribution of public disturbance acts,accounting for the effect of pandemic restrictions and differences in neighborhood context. Findings show that,with the exception of abandoned vehicles, there was a significant increase in records of public disturbance afterthe 2020 stay-at-home pandemic restrictions. Parks, transport hubs and less importantly, schools were significantly associated with public disturbances, controlling for neighborhood characteristics and reporting practices.Recommendations are made for research and practice.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-, et al.
(författare)
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Do crime hot spots affect housing prices?
- 2020
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Criminology. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2578-983X. ; 21:1, s. 84-102
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Our knowledge about what happens to housing values when properties are close to places with high concentrations of crime, often called ‘hot spots’, is limited. Previous research suggests that crime depresses property prices overall, but crime hot spots affect house prices more than crime occurrence does and may affect prices of single-family houses more than prices of flats. Here we employ hedonic price modelling to estimate the impact of crime hot spots on housing sales, controlling for property, neighbourhood and city characteristics in the Stockholm metropolitan region, Sweden. Using a Geographic Information System (GIS), we combine property sales by coordinates into a single database with locations of crime hot spots. The overall effect on house prices of crime (measured as crime rates) is relatively small, but if its impact is measured by distance to a crime hot spot, the effect is non-negligible. By moving a house 1 km further away from a crime hot spot, its value increases by more than SEK 30,000 (about EUR 2,797). Vandalism is the type of crime that most affects prices for both multi- and single-family housing, but that effect decreases with distance from a crime hot spot.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-, et al.
(författare)
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Does Crime Impact Real Estate Prices? An Assessment of Accessibility and Location
- 2017
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Ingår i: Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology. - : Oxford University Press.
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this study, we aim to contribute to this literature by assessing the impact of crimeand accessibility on housing prices. Accessibility is expected to have a positive impacton housing prices, but good accessibility to a place may also mean more crime, becausean accessible place allows more social interaction, more crime opportunities, and morecrime, pulling housing prices down. Individuals make choices based on a trade- offbetween accessibility and criminality. Using hedonic modeling, we empirically assessthis trade- off after controlling for other property and neighborhood characteristics.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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Does poverty cause violence?
- 2017
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Ingår i: The Wiley Handbook of Violence and Aggression. - Dordrecht : Wiley. ; , s. 67-82
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this chapter, “violence” refers to general acts of aggression. In most of the studies discussedhere, however, violence means lethal violence or homicide, because homicides constitute amore robust set of records in official statistics compared with overall violence. Also, homicidein itself is interesting because it can be a good indicator of well-being and wider socialconditions.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-, et al.
(författare)
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Environmental and wildlife crime in Sweden 2010 to 2017
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. - : SAGE Open. - 1043-9862 .- 1552-5406. ; 36:3, s. 403-427
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study combines police records with newspaper articles (media archives) toreport the nature and trends of environmental and wildlife crime (EWC) in Swedenfrom 2000 to 2017. Geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial statisticaltechniques are used to implement a temporal and spatial analysis of EWC in Swedishmunicipalities, which are split into three types: urban, accessible rural, and remoterural. Findings show that following the 2006 legal reform that increased possibilitiesfor prosecuting EWC, the number of both police-recorded cases and newspaperarticles increased and eventually stabilized. They also show that although themajority of EWCs are minor crimes, particularly in urban municipalities, many of themore serious crimes show chronic temporal and spatial patterns in more rural andremote areas. The persistence of certain serious crimes over time is interpretedas an indication that the costs of breaking environmental law are low relative toeconomic gains. Then, drawing from criminological theory, the article finishes bydiscussing implications to research and policy
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-, et al.
(författare)
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Experiences from Assessing Safety in Vingis Park, Vilnius, Lithuania
- 2013
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Ingår i: Review of European Studies. - : Canadian Center of Science and Education. - 1918-7173 .- 1918-7181. ; 5:5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to suggest a multi-method approach for assessing safety in parks. The study is based on the analysis of police crime data combined with information from a safety walk and safety survey of park users. The framework is tested in an urban park, Vingis, in the inner city of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Findings show that Vingis is perceived as a safe park, but, compared with police statistics, the survey and the safety walk provide a more nuanced diagnostic of safety in this green area. Vingis’ safety is compromised by car traffic and illicit parking practices, the park’s poor capacity to accommodate users’ needs (e.g. the elderly, parents with small children, young people) and the inadequate infrastructure for users at certain times, such as in the evenings and dark months of the year. Patterns of safety expressed by citizens of Vingis park do not differ from the ones found in parks elsewhere (both in relation to their physical and social environment), despite the recent transformations Vilnius, as the capital city, has overcome since the country’s independence. The article concludes with an assessment of the proposed framework and directions for research and intervention.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
(författare)
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Eyes and Apps on the Streets : From Surveillance to Sousveillance Using Smartphones
- 2019
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Ingår i: Criminal Justice Review. - : SAGE Publications Inc.. - 0734-0168 .- 1556-3839. ; 44:1, s. 25-41
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the concept of surveillance by assessing the nature of data gathered by users of a smartphone-based tool (app) developed in Sweden to assist citizens in reporting incidents in public spaces. This article first illustrates spatial and temporal patterns of records gathered over 9 months in Stockholm County using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to exemplify the process of sousveillance via app. Then, the experiences of user group members, collected using an app-based survey, are analyzed. Findings show that the incident reporting app is more often used to report an incident and less often to prevent it. Preexistent social networks in neighborhoods are fundamental for widespread adoption of the app, often used as a tool in Neighborhood Watch schemes in high-crime areas. Although the potentialities of using app data are open, these results call for more in-depth evaluations of smartphone data for safety interventions.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-, et al.
(författare)
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Farmers, Victimization, and Animal Rights Activism in Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Professional Geographer. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0033-0124 .- 1467-9272. ; , s. 1-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Conflicts between animal production and animal rights activism are becoming more common in a number of countries, including Sweden. Although most animal rights advocates would not consider committing a crime, there have been numerous accounts in which farmers have been victimized because they are animal producers. This study investigates the extent and characteristics of crimes committed against animal farmers and their families. The analysis is based on answers from a survey of 3,815 animal farmers in Sweden in 2020. Cross-table analysis, logistic regression models, and geographical information systems (GIS) underlie the methodology of the study. One in eight respondents declared being exposed to crimes because they are animal producers (from thefts, trespassing, sabotage, and threats to physical violence, most face-to-face but also online), but 60 percent of the victims never report to the police. Among nonvictims, half of the respondents knew someone who had been a victim of crime. Findings indicate that farmers’ victimization for theft or robbery show different motivations than those that are directed at them because they work with animal production. These findings highlight the importance of incorporating farmers’ safety needs into sustainable rural development policies.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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Fear of crime and overall anxieties in rural areas : The case of Sweden
- 2018. - 1
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Ingår i: The Routledge International Handbook on Fear of Crime. - 1 Edition. | New York : Routledge, [2018] | Series: Routledge international handbooks : Routledge. - 9781138120334 - 9781315651781
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter discusses the nature of fear of crime by placing it in a broader context using Swedish rural areas as a case study. It focuses on particular groups in Swedish rural areas: the farmers, the Sami young adults and local residents in relation to temporary newcomers, the 'berry pickers'. The chapter also discusses how fear and anxieties take shape by looking at particular groups. Anxieties are fed by multi-scale factors, which make fear a difficult issue to be tackled as a policing matter. However, fear of crime and other overall anxieties are rarely considered as priority issues by these local crime prevention councils. Equally important is to better understand the mechanisms linking everyday practices with othering and discrimination as generators of fears and other anxieties. The inflow of berry pickers is characterised by a number of fears. Berry pickers have long been associated with images of crime and problems of social order in the Swedish media.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-, et al.
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Fear of Sexual Harassment and Its Impact on Safety Perceptions in Transit Environments : A Global Perspective. Violence Against Women
- 2021
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Ingår i: Violence against Women. - : SAGE Publications. - 1077-8012 .- 1552-8448.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study reports variation in safety perceptions in transit environments, based onsamples of university students in 18 cities on six continents who responded to anidentical 45-question survey (N= 13,323 university students). We explore potentiallinks between students’ fears and sexual victimization and conclude that sexualharassment affects their behavior and mobility. Student mobility was affected byavoidance strategies prompting some transit riders to travel at particular times, ontravel routes and settings that are deemed especially risky, or even avoiding usingtransit completely. Findings highlight the importance of city–country contexts fortransit safety.
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