ABSTRACT
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429352775 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
No city environment reflects the meaning of urban life better than a public place. A public place, whatever its nature—a park, a mall, a train platform or a street corner—is where people pass by, meet each other and at times become a victim of crime. With this book, we submit that crime and safety in public places are not issues that can be easily dealt with within the boundaries of a single discipline. The book aims to illustrate the complexity of patterns of crime and fear in public places with examples of studies on these topics contextualized in different cities and countries around the world. This is achieved by tackling five cross-cutting themes: the nature of the city’s environment as a backdrop for crime and fear; the dynamics of individuals’ daily routines and their transit safety; the safety perceptions experienced by those who are most in fear in public places; the metrics of crime and fear; and, finally, examples of current practices in promoting safety. All these original chapters contribute to our quest for safer, more inclusive, resilient, equitable and sustainable cities and human settlements aligned to the Global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|72 pages
Crime and fear in public places
chapter 3|35 pages
The architecture of crime and fear of crime
part II|70 pages
The environment
part III|72 pages
The movement
chapter 8|16 pages
Transit safety among college students in Tokyo-Kanagawa, Japan
part IV|74 pages
The users’ perspective
chapter 13|15 pages
Does context matter?
chapter 14|24 pages
Individual and spatial dimensions of women’s fear of crime
part V|56 pages
The metrics
chapter 15|14 pages
Contextual determinants of fear of crime in public transit
chapter 17|19 pages
“Fear in 280 characters”
part VI|72 pages
The intervention
chapter 18|15 pages
Fear of the dark
chapter 19|17 pages
Evaluating harm-reduction initiatives in a night-time economy and music festival context
chapter 21|16 pages
Safety in the making
part VII|24 pages
Crime and fear in public places