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- Ceccato, Vania, 1968-, et al.
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Acts of vandalism and fear in neighbourhoods : do they affect housing prices?
- 2012
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Ingår i: The urban fabric of crime and fear. - Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands. ; , s. 191-213
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter assesses whether acts of vandalism and fear of crime affect neighbourhoods, particularly their effect on housing prices. The study employs hedonic pricing modelling to estimate the impact of crime and fear of crime, controlling for other factors (property and neighbourhood characteristics). Geographic information system (GIS) is used to combine apartment sales with offences data, responses of the 2008 Safety Survey and land-use characteristics of the study area, Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Results indicate that apartment prices are affected by both vandalism and fear (in an area and its neighbouring zones). There is an indication of a synergic effect of vandalism and fear in neighbourhoods: when vandalism and fear of places in the neighbourhood are assessed together, results show that housing values tend to be lower than in areas where either vandalism alone or fear affects property values. This chapter concludes with a discussion of the results and recommendation for future studies.
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- Ceccato, Vania, 1968-
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Crime prevention in rural areas : addressing violence against women
- 2011
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Ingår i: Violence against Women. - : Sage Publications. - 1077-8012 .- 1552-8448.
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The objective of this article is to report experiences of local crime prevention initiatives onviolence against women in rural Sweden. The study relies on a combination of secondary dataand surveys. Although violence against women is higher in urban areas, rural municipalitiesare showing more cases than in the past. The geography of violence against women is farfrom being homogeneous across the country, reflecting not only population structuraldifferences but also local and regional capabilities of criminal justice and society overallconditions to deal with this type of violence. Beyond the problems imposed by geographicalisolation, some of the challenges shared by those working with violence against women inrural areas are limited resources to assist victims and difficulties in putting in practice nationalpolicy guidelines. The article concludes with a summary of results and suggestions for futureresearch.
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- Ceccato, Vania, 1968-, et al.
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Crime prevention in rural Sweden
- 2013
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Ingår i: European Journal of Criminology. - : Sage Publications. - 1477-3708 .- 1741-2609. ; 10:1, s. 89-112
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we report examples of crime prevention (CP) experiences using case studies in rural municipalities in Sweden. Data from three different sources were analysed: semi-structured interviews with representatives of CP groups in eight rural municipalities, responses from an email survey, and a database of CP projects receiving funding from the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention. Findings show that youth-related problems are the major CP concern, which are translated into projects against violence and alcohol and drug addiction. National CP guidelines overlook the nature of rural crime, its seasonality and what happens outside the urban core. Although CP groups in rural Sweden face a number of challenges, they show indications of being well prepared to address youth-related problems. The article concludes with a summary of results and flags the need to extend the international evidence on crime prevention to include experiences that go beyond large city problems.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-, et al.
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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, 1968-
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From ‘defensible space’ to ‘space of flows’: integrating geographical information into urban safety research and planning
- 2011
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the ICE - Urban Design and Planning. - : ICE publishing. - 1755-0793.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The objective of this article is to discuss the use of Geographical Information (GI) and spatial analyticalmethodologies in urban safety research and planning. Based on previous empirical examples, the article discusses advances and challenges of studying crime and perceived safety using GI and spatial analytical methodologies. Thearticles reviews the analysis of crime and perceived fear at the micro-level landscape followed by a discussion of ecological studies often searching for associations between socio-economic characteristics of small areas. The use ofGI and visualisation techniques has also been incorporated into research and planning in public participation schemes and, more recently, into new methodologies aiming at predicting human movement patterns using real-timedata. The paper also reviews some of the current challenges for spatial urban safety research and concludes with prospects on the value of this form of analysis in the near future.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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Har miljö betydelse för säkerhet och trygghet på T-banan?
- 2012
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Ingår i: PLAN. - Stockholm. - 0032-0560.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Medborgarnas behov av rörlighet kan uppfyllas genom tillgängliga, pålitliga och säkratransportsystem. Men hur säkra är egentligen knutpunkterna i Stockholms tunnelbana?Och hur trygg känner man sig där? Under ett års tid ledde Vania Ceccato, docent vid Institutionenför Fastigheter och byggande, KTH, ett projekt som syftade till att förstå miljönsbetydelse för säkerhet och trygghet på Stockholms tunnelbanor. Medverkade i projektetgjorde också Adriaan Cornelis Uittenbogaard och Roya Bamzar. Projektet finansierades avTrafikverket, SL och Stockholm stad.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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Moving Safely : Crime and Perceived Safety in Stockholm's Subway Stations
- 2013. - 1
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- 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 stations. The book adopts an approach that is place-centered, looking upon those who travel through the system and who may become a victim of crime. Safety at transportation nodes is not a field for one science only; it demands the combination of cross-disciplinary theories (urban criminology, architecture, geography, transportation and urban planning) as well as integrated methods that are capable of dealing with an ever-increasing volume of data. Adopting a whole journey approach to safety, the book offers suggestions on how to plan safety at subway stations with a variety of passengers’ needs. Although these suggestions are not the first ones in the literature, certainly they are new in terms of relying on findings from hypothesis testing and spatial data from a Scandinavian city. Moving Safely is relevant for experts in safety and transportation research, including criminologists, planners, transportation engineers, architects as well as professionals dealing directly with safety interventions.
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- Ceccato, Vania, 1968-
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Plats som motverkar våld
- 2011
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Ingår i: Miljöforskning. - Stockholm, Sweden : Formas. - 1650-4925. ; :4
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Ceccato, Vania, 1968-, et al.
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Safety in Stockholm’s underground stations : the importance of environmental attributes and context
- 2011
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this study is to assess safety conditions in underground stations and surrounding areaswhere individual trips take place. The study is based on four independent sources: Police crime data,Veolia’s database, SL’s database and Stockholm Safety Survey. Spatial data analysis in GIS underpinthe methodology employed combined with detailed fieldwork at the underground stations. Findingsshow that a relatively small share of reported events are crime, most events are public disorder anddisturbance. Clear temporal and spatial variations of both crime and events of public disorder werefound. Events tend to happen more often in the evenings-nights, during holidays and weekends and,at least for violence, in the cold months of the year. Despite the fact that underground stations andtheir surrounding areas are criminogenic places (around 60 per cent of all reported offences to thePolice in Stockholm city takes place up to 500 meters from an underground station in 30 per cent ofits area), people declare to feel relatively safe there. They are more concerned about safety on theway from/to these transport nodes. T-Centralen might concentrate the highest number of events inStockholm but it does not keep its top position after events are standardized by daily passengersflow. The so-called “end-stations” often show higher rates of events (crime and public disorder) thanstations located in the inner city areas (exceptions are Medborgaplasten, Skanstull and T-centralenfor thefts, for instance). Hjulsta, Farsta Strand and Hagsätra show high rates regardless crime type.Some of these stations are also perceived as unsafe. The environment of underground stationsfollows some common standards (e.g., illumination, gates, real time train arrival time tables, andplatform/lounge structures) but they are far from being homogenous. Differences in the environmentof underground stations and their contexts have an impact on the stations’ vulnerability to crime andperceived safety. Evidence shows that features that indicate barriers to formal and informal socialcontrol are related to higher rates of offences, such as few people in the station, objects hinderingvisibility/surveillance, corner, hiding places. Good illumination, less presence of physical and socialdisturbance is often related to lower rates of crime and events. The context of these stations is alsoimportant to the stations’ vulnerability. Stations are often more targeted by crime and disorder whenthey are located in more peripheral neighbourhoods with higher housing instability and populationdensity and fewer police stations. Factors behind crime and disorder at the station are not alwaysrelevant to explain perceived safety. Stations perceived as unsafe are often associated with visiblesocial disturbance, with low potential for surveillance, where violence and events of public disorderare common and visible. Although crime is an important component of safety, property crimes, suchas theft, do not seem to play a role in explaining perceived safety. Unsafe stations are often located inneighbourhoods with social problems and high housing mobility. On the other hand, safe stationsare characterized by an effective formal social control in place, they are often smaller (fewer numberof platforms and exits), exhibit high potential for natural surveillance and are not necessarilycentrally located. This study finalises making suggestions for safety improvements taking intoaccount different types of crimes, their variation over time and space and the perception of safety bydifferent groups. Finally, it also highlights areas in need of further research, among other things, theneed of better knowledge on how to implement safety measures with a whole journey approach,taking into account the specificities of stations environments and needs of different groups ofpassengers.
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- Ceccato, Vania, 1968-, et al.
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Security in Stockholm's underground stations : The importance of environmental attributes and context
- 2013
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Ingår i: Security Journal. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0955-1662 .- 1743-4645. ; 26:1, s. 33-59
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to report on the security conditions in underground stations and surrounding areas in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. The study is based on a comprehensive fieldwork combined with Geographical Information Systems techniques and regression models. Findings show that a relatively small share of reported events is crime; acts of public disorder are more common at the stations. Events tend to happen in the evenings - nights, holidays and weekends - and, at least for theft, in the hotter months of the year. Although the highest number of events is found in the central station, the so-called 'end-stations' show often higher rates than those located in the inner city. Results show that opportunities for crime are dependent on stations' environmental attributes, type of neighbourhood in which they are located and city context. These findings lend weight to principles of traditional urban criminology theory such as routine activity and social disorganisation. The article concludes with directions for future research and suggestions for policy.
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- Ceccato, Vania, 1968-, et al.
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Space-time clusters of crime in Stockholm, Sweden
- 2011
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Ingår i: Procedia Environmental Sciences. - Enshede, The Netherlands : Elsevier. ; , s. 1-8
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of the study is to detect geographical clustering of offences over time using Kulldorff’s scan test (SaTScan version 9.01; Kulldorff 2010) and police recorded data over Stockholm city, the capital of Sweden. This technique has a rigorous inference theory for identifying statistically significant clusters. The space–time scan statistics are used in a single retrospective analysis using data from 1st January 2006 to 31st December 2009. Four years dataset is collapsed into ‘one year’. All space and time dimensions of the data are kept (by day and location) except ‘year’. Clusters over the hours of the day, weekday and weekend and by seasons were tested. Total population but also day time and night time populations were used as reference. Findings show clear distinct patterns of concentration for violence (assault and threat) and property crimes (theft, robbery and burglary) over time and space. Whilst property crimes tend to happen more often in the afternoons in the centre and regional commercial centers in the southern and western parts of Stockholm, violence takes place more often in the night, and is heavily concentrated in large parts of the city centre. Weekends are more targeted than weekdays for both offences. Regardless day of the week, the main urban core contains the most likely cluster that extends also to commercial and socially disorganized areas in the west and south Stockholm. Whilst property crime does not show significant differences over the seasons, violence does (winter and summer). The most likely clusters tend to be fairly constant in space over time.
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- Ceccato, Vania, 1968-, et al.
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The DORA Project – Methodological Considerations at the European Level
- 2011
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper reviews the rationale for the adoption of a multiple-methods interdisciplinaryapproach in a European comparative research project entitled the Dynamics ofRural Areas (DORA), and describes some of the experiences, advantages and limitations ofthe selected approach. DORA has as a main goal to assess the underlying reasons fordifferential economic performance in eight European regions, and involves research teams inScotland, Germany, Greece and Sweden. Four key issues are discussed. Firstly, the challengesfaced in designing a ‘common’ methodology within a multi-disciplinary international teamthat reflects both researchers’ backgrounds and specific country contexts. Secondly, some ofthe problems related to the sensitivity of economic indicators and the collection ofcomparable secondary data across different countries. Thirdly, the potential conflicts that canarise between a requirement for international comparability combined with a need torecognise the unique circumstances of individual case study areas, and finally, the variationsin respondents’ perceptions and opinions that can occur between qualitative and morequantitative approaches, and how these can be dealt with. The discussion is illustrated by apresentation of some key findings of the study, and concludes with some suggestions to helptake the debate forward.
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- Ceccato, Vania, Professor, 1968-
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The geographic,socioeconomic, and cultural determinants of violence
- 2014. - 6
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Ingår i: Oxford Textbooks in Public Health - Violence: A global health priority. - : Oxford University Press. - 9780199661756
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The objective of this chapter is to make a contribution to thisknowledge base by reviewing explanations for violence (levelsand patterns), drawing from principles of criminological theoriesthat are supported by evidence from Northern American andEuropean cities as well as from cities of the Global South.
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- Ceccato, Vania, 1968-, et al.
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The impact of crime and fear of crime on property prices
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This article assess whether acts of vandalism and fear of crime affect neighbourhoods, particularly their effect on housing prices. The study employs hedonic pricing modelling to estimate the impact of crime and fear of crime, controlling for other factors (property and neighbourhood characteristics). Geographic Information System (GIS) is used to combine apartment sales with offences data, responses of the 2008 Safety Survey and land-use characteristics of the study area, Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Results indicate that apartment prices are affected by both vandalism and fear (in an area and its neighbouring zones). There is an indication of a synergic effect of vandalism and fear in neighbourhoods: when vandalism and fear of places in the neighbourhood are assessed together, results show that housing values tend to be lower than in areas where either vandalism alone or fear affects property values. The paper concludes with a discussion of the results and recommendation for future studies.
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- Ceccato, Vania, 1968-
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The urban fabric of crime and fear : an introduction
- 2012
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Ingår i: The urban fabric of crime and fear. - Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands. - 9789400742093
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cities are places of social interaction. Some social interactions – such as being a victim of crime – are unpleasant experiences. We live in a world in which security concerns have become an integral part of our daily thoughts, putting in check one of the basic elements of cities’ virtues ─ their liveability. Fences, padlocks, dogs, guards, security electronic devices, hermetic shopping malls or gated communities are just part of the commodified security urban landscape.The objective of this book is to provide a theoretical and empirical discussion of security issues in the urban context. This is important since we cannot plan cities that are socially sustainable without taking security into account. Although there is no such thing as a place free of crime, a sustainable city should aim at being free from the risk (or fear) of crime, where a feeling of security underpins a wider sense of place attachment and social cohesion. The fact is that the risk of being a victim of crime is not equally or randomly distributed over space. 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 security 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.Finally, and importantly, this book will be entirely unique. Simply put: there is no other book like it. Books about similar issues may present a general perspective of security (Dodds and Pippard, 2005, UNHS, 2007) or often deal with specific themes, such as perceived safety (e.g., Van den Berg, 2006), crime geography (e.g., Hirschfield and Bowers, 2001) or about practical issues of crime prevention by urban design (e.g., Brennan and Zelinka, 2001). These issues might be relevant only to a specific area (e.g., Atkinson, 2001).Our goal in creating this book is to take advantage of the expanding field of urban criminology and of the growing number of professionals interested in security in the urban context. We will accomplish this by providing a fundamental book that will act as a starting point for those carrying out or interested in research on urban criminology, urban planning, urban geography and urban design. We believe our book will fill a growing niche and meet the demand of an expanding discipline for years to come.As we are sure you are aware, the quality of book relies heavily upon both the editor and the contributors. Given our passion for this topic, and our sincere desire to fill the current void and to create a quality product, we are very carefully selecting the contributors. Many will be leading scholars in their particular area of work. For example, those who have already provided or agreed to provide a chapter include Bill Hillier, Nick Tilley, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Per Olof Wikström, Alba Zaluar, Robert Haining, and others. To further ensure quality and to make sure the edited volume is not derivative, each of the chapters in the book will represent original scholarship prepared specifically for this project. These internationally renowned researchers will be looking at a single theme but from different perspectives (e.g., architecture, urban geography, criminology, sociology) which will make the book potentially useful to a wide group of professionals and practitioners interested in urban security issues, such as urban planners, criminologists, architects, geographers as well as those working directly with security interventions.
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- Ceccato, Vania, 1968-, et al.
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Tracking social life and crime
- 2012
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Ingår i: The urban fabric of crime and fear. - Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands. ; , s. 165-190
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- An individual’s decision to commit a crime is influenced, among other things, by his/her whereabouts over time and space. In this article, we suggest the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), combined with space-time budget techniques, to visualise and track individuals’ daily activities patterns. We first test several GIS-based visualisation techniques for handling spatial and temporal dimensions of activity patterns using a dataset of adolescents in Peterborough, UK. Later, we show how these spatial methods can support the creation of measures of environmental exposure that may help predict group level offending. Findings indicate that visualisation techniques are effective tools for exploratory analysis of how individuals differ in their patterns of activity across the city. Results also show that tracking groups of individuals by using measures of environmental exposure, in combination with individual characteristics and settings, can help explain differences in their levels of offending.
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- Ceccato, Vania, 1968-
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Understanding the nature of outdoor rape
- 2012
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Ingår i: Women, Crime and Criminal Justice Practice. - Cambridge, UK.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- What can we learn about women’s mobility and urban environments from cases of outdoor rape? Are there ‘typical places’ for rape? How do they look like? How do victims relate to the rape place? To what extent do these places relate to women´s overall fear of crime? These are some of the questions to be answered in the research project entitled “Putting women in their place: city environment and female mobility, lessons from cases of outdoor rapes” using cases of outdoor rapes in Stockholm, Sweden. The objective of the study is to two-fold. First, it contributes to better understanding of the urban environment and the spatial dynamics in which outdoor rapes take place. Second, it uncovers how crime place is recalled and perceived by the victim and by doing that, the study searches for insights on how victim’s immediate mobility pre and post rape relates to current patterns of women’s fear of crime in city environments. One of the novelties of this research is to incorporate accurate knowledge of places where one third of all rapes in Sweden take place. In this presentation we will focus on preliminary results of the study by discussing the nature of these places in relation to overall city environment.
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- Dymén, Christian, et al.
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An international perspective of the gender dimension in planning for urban safety
- 2012
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Ingår i: The urban fabric of crime and fear. - Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands. ; , s. 311-339
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to illustrate how gender is incorporated into urban planning practices when urban safety is the main goal. The empirical material is from case studies in Austria, Finland, Sweden and the UK gathered by semi-structured interview with key actors identified through a snowball sampling procedure. The case studies focus mostly on perceived safety in public places. Although the cases differ in nature and are embedded in different contexts, safety is often promoted by interventions that deal with the characteristics of the urban environment, either at the planning stage of new housing developments or making changes to existing neighbourhood features. The cases often employ participatory schemes and safety audits even where rational planning dominates. The article concludes by proposing an agenda that may be of relevance to planners and practitioners dealing with safety and gender issues at the municipal level.
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- Salla, Jako, et al.
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Homicide in Estonia
- 2011
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Ingår i: Handbook of European Homicide Research. - New York : Springer. - 9781461404651 ; , s. 421-437
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Homicide is a topic of particular interest in Estonia since level of violent deaths is well above the European average. In 2006-2008 the average rate per 100000 population in Estonia was 6.6, in the EU it was second highest rate after Lithuania in these years. At the same time Estonia has experienced a rapid decrease in homicide during last 15 years – the rate of homicide used to be more than four times higher in the middle of 1990s.High rate of violent death is not something that has evolved during last decades, it has been a problem through very different state orders and social conditions, including Soviet era from 1940ies to 1980ies. In broadest sense lethal violence in Estonia should be analyzed in relation to alcohol consumption behavior and cultural traditions. Estonia shares drinking patterns with its neighbors Finland and Russia, it also has a remarkable immigrant population whose rates of homicide and violence in general have been and are still higher in comparison to Estonians.The problems that arise from heavy drinking are also visible in other areas where unnatural deaths occur: Estonia has lead EU rankings of fire deaths and deaths caused by drowning and traffic accidents.Despite high rates of homicide, it has not become a topic of special interest for public in Estonia. Although each week a person or two are being killed on average in recent years, media covers only a few exceptional cases during the year. This has probably contributed to rational criminal policy but has not drawn enough attention to social and economic policy areas such as alcohol policy.
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The urban fabric of crime and fear
- 2012
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Cities are places of social interaction. Some social interactions — such as being a victim of crime “ are unpleasant experiences. Even if there is no such thing as a place free of crime, many would argue that a liveable city should aim to control the risk or fear of crime, where a feeling of security underpin a sense of place attachment and the social cohesion of its residents. Security includes individuals” risk of being a victim of crime as well as their perceived safety. Some would argue that, although security is necessary for urban quality of life, prioritising it may restrict social interaction, exclude certain groups of individuals and stigmatise others. Cities cannot aim at being socially sustainable without considering their citizens' security concerns seriously. However, the determination to ensure security must follow policies and practices which have a wide sense of inclusion and fairness. The objective of this book is to provide a theoretical and empirical discussion of security issues in the urban context based on different research traditions. From an academic point of view, the book shows examples of potentialities and limitations within different research disciplines when dealing with urban crime and fear of crime. From a practical point of view, the book has the potential to help practitioners and planners to set out a more realistic agenda for what can be planned and achieved when the issues are crime and fear of crime.
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