The Urban Fabric of Crime and Fear

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: the importance of the built environment: Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris.- Chapter 5 - Safety in numbers: high resolution analysis of crime in street networks: Bill Hillier and Ozlem Sahbaz.- Part 3 - Crime, fear of crime in neighborhoods and their effects: Chapter 6 - Ecological analysis of urban offence and offender data: Robert Haining.- Chapter 7 - Tracking social life and crime: Vania Ceccato and Per Olof Wikstrom.- Chapter 8 - Acts of vandalism and fear in neighbourhoods: do they affect housing prices?: Vania Ceccato and Mats Wilhemsson.- Part 4 - The context of crime and fear in cities of Global South: Chapter 9 - Turf war in Rio de Janeiro: youth, drug traffic, guns and hyper -masculinity: Alba Zaluar.- Chapter 10 - Reconsidering crime and urban fortification in South Africa: Karina Landman.- Part 5 - Actions for safe urban environments: Chapter 11 - Community, security and distributive justice: Nick Tilley.- Chapter 12 - Is Hammarby Sjostad a model case? crime prevention through environmental design in Stockholm, Sweden: Bo Gronlund.- Chapter 13 - An international perspective of the gender dimension in planning for urban safety: Christian Dymen and Vania Ceccato.