ISBN:
9789400742109
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XIV, 351 p. 82 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. The urban fabric of crime and fear
Keywords:
Social sciences
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Regional planning
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Architecture
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Criminology
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Human Geography
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Social Sciences
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Social sciences
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Regional planning
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Architecture
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Criminology
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Human Geography
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Stadtplanung
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Kriminalität
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Kriminalitätsfurcht
Abstract:
How does the city{u2019}s urban fabric relate to crime and fear, and how is that fabric affected by crime and fear? Does the urban environment affect one{u2019}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{u2019}s activities.¡ In other words, the book deals with the urban fabric of crime and fear. The novelty of the book is to place safety and security issues on the urban scale by (1) showing links between urban structure, and crime and fear, (2) illustrating how different disciplines deal with urban vulnerability to (and fear of) crime (3) including concrete examples of issues and challenges found in European and North American cities, and, without being too extensive, also in cities of the Global South
Abstract:
With global case studies, this book traces the interplay between crime, and the fear of crime, and the wider urban fabric. It shows how an urban environment can affect the decision to commit a crime, and how some cityscape have crime and inequality 'built in'
Description / Table of Contents:
The Urban Fabric of Crime and Fear; Preface; Chapter Outlines; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Urban Fabric of Crime and Fear; 1.1 Introduction; 1.1.1 The `Urban Fabric´ in This Book; 1.2 Placing Fear on the Urban Scale; 1.3 Micro-urban Environments of Crime and Fear; 1.4 Crime, Fear of Crime in Neighbourhoods and Its Effects; 1.5 The Context of Crime and Fear in Cities of Global South; 1.6 Actions for Safe Urban Environments; 1.7 Concluding and Looking Ahead; References; Part I: Placing Fear on the Urban Scale
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Chapter 2: Urban Security: Whose Security? Everyday Responses to Urban Fears2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Whose Fear Is It Anyway?; 2.3 Outline of the Chapter; 2.4 Methodology; 2.5 Control, Surveillance and Young People´s Security; 2.6 Victimisation and Fear; 2.7 Belonging, Exclusion and Agency in Urban Youth Security; 2.8 Citizenship and Urban Security; 2.9 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Urban Fear and Its Roots in Place; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Neighbourhood Contexts and Causal Mechanisms; 3.2.1 Crime and Disorder; 3.2.2 Social and Organisational Neighbourhood Structures
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3.2.3 Multilevel Approaches to Neighbourhood Effects3.3 Study One: The Meaning and Effect of Neighbourhood; 3.3.1 Hypotheses; 3.3.2 Data; 3.3.3 Defining Neighbourhoods, Analysing Neighbourhood Effects and Incorporating Spatial Autocorrelation; 3.3.4 Measures; 3.3.5 Results; 3.3.6 Discussion; 3.4 Study Two: Issues in the Measurement of Fear of Crime; 3.4.1 Objectives and Data; 3.4.2 Measures and Analytical Strategy; 3.4.3 Results; 3.5 Final Considerations; References; Part II: Micro-Urban Environments of Crime and Fear; Chapter 4: Safe on the Move: The Importance of the Built Environment
Description / Table of Contents:
4.1 Introduction4.2 Who Is Afraid and Why?; 4.3 Fear and the Spatial Characteristics of Place; 4.4 Fear of Transit in Los Angeles; 4.5 Crime and the Spatial Characteristics of Places; 4.6 Transit Crime in Los Angeles; 4.7 Recommendations for Reducing Fear and Crime in Transit Environments; References; Chapter 5: Safety in Numbers: High-Resolution Analysis of Crime in Street Networks; 5.1 Background: New Urbanism and Defensible Space; 5.2 Theoretical Background: The Other Side of Newman; 5.3 House Type, Socio-economic Level, Density and Residential Burglary; 5.4 Building-Centred Density
Description / Table of Contents:
5.5 Contextualising the Street Network and Crime Problem5.6 Segment Connectivity and Other Variables; 5.7 Primary Risk Band Analysis of Robbery; 5.8 Robbery in Space and Time; 5.9 Discussion: Safety in Numbers, a Paradigm Changing Result; References; Part III: Crime, Fear of Crime in Neighbourhoods and Their Effects; Chapter 6: Ecological Analysis of Urban Offence and Offender Data; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Ecological Analysis in Practice; 6.3 Explaining Geographical Variation in Burglary Rates; 6.4 Identifying High-Intensity Crime Areas; 6.5 Analyzing the Geography of Offending; 6.6 Conclusions
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DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-4210-9
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