The Urban Fabric of Crime and Fear [Paperback]

How does the citys urban fabric relate to crime and fear, and how is that fabric affected by crime and fear? Does the urban environment affect ones 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 peoples 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.

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.

Preface.- Chapter outlines.- Introduction: Chapter 1  The urban fabric of crime and fear: Vania Ceccato.- Part 1 - Placing fear on the urban scale: Chapter 2 - Urban security: whose security? everyday responses to urban fears: Catherine Alexander and Rachel Pain.- Chapter 3 - Urban fear and its roots in place: Jonathan Jackson and Ian Branton-Smith.- Part 2 - Micro-urban environments of crime and fear: Chapter 4 - Safe on the move:l³'