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Crime is often perceived as an urban issue rather than a problem that occurs in rural areas, but how far is this view tenable? This book explores the relationship between crime and community in rural areas and addresses the notion of safety as part of the community dynamics in such areas. Rural Crime and Community Safety makes a significant contribution to crime science and integrates a range of theories to understand patterns of crime and perceived safety in rural contexts. Based on a wealth of original research, Ceccato combines spatial methods with qualitative analysis to examine, in detail, farm and wildlife crime, youth related crimes and gendered violence in rural settings. Making the most of the expanding field of Criminology and of the growing professional inquiry into crime and crime prevention in rural areas; rural development; and the social sustainability of rural areas, this book builds a bridge by connecting Criminology and Human Geography. This book will be suitable for academics, students and practitioners in the fields of criminology, community safety, rural studies, rural development and gender studies.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I Introduction to Safety and Security in Transit Environments -- 1 Aim, Scope, Conceptual Framework and Definitions -- 2 Theoretical Perspectives of Safety and Security in Transit Environments -- Part II Transport Nodes and the Micro Environment -- 3 Apple Picking: The Rise of Electronic Device Thefts in Boston Subways

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of boxes -- List of tables -- About the author -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART I Introduction -- 1 Aim, scope, and book structure -- 2 Crime and safety in rural areas -- 3 Definitions, theory, and research making in rural Sweden -- PART II Trends and patterns of crime -- 4 Rural-urban crime trends in international perspective -- 5 The geography of property and violent crimes in Sweden -- PART III Perceived safety in rural areas -- 6 The nature of perceived safety in rural areas -- 7 Perceived safety in Swedish rural areas -- PART IV Crime in a rural context -- 8 Farm crimes and environmental and wildlife offenses -- 9 Youth in rural areas -- 10 Violence against women in rural communities -- PART V Policing and crime prevention in rural Sweden -- 11 Police, rural policing, and community safety -- 12 Prevention of farm crimes and crimes against nature -- 13 Crime prevention in rural areas: youth-related challenges -- 14 Challenges to preventing women abuse in rural communities -- PART VI The difference that rural makes -- 15 Lessons from rural Sweden and looking ahead -- Index.

The aim of Moving Safely is to provide both theoretical and empirical perspectives on safety conditions at subway stations. This book adopts an approach that is place-centered, focusing on the importance of physical and social environments of these transit settings on crime and perceived safety using Stockholm transportation system as a case study . It offers suggestions on how to plan safety at subway stations with a variety of passenger preferences, needs and resources.<

The objective of this study is to characterize the nature and space-time patterns of traffic accidents involving elderly pedestrians in Sweden, in order to suggest preventive measures. The analysis is based on elderly pedestrian accidents from 2010 to 2014 using an age adjusted standardized elderly accidents ratios (ASEAR), Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and spatial statistics techniques. Findings show that the geography of elderly traffic accidents is far from being homogenous across the country: although most accidents happen in urban municipalities, 30 per cent of municipalities classified as accessible rural exhibit relatively high-standardized accidents ratios. They happen often in daylight hours, on weekdays and in the coldest months of the year. Most of the cases are single accidents (e.g. self-inflicted fall); they happen in street segments/intersections and pedestrian/bicycle path, some affected by environment conditions such as icy or uneven surfaces. Findings of the study call for preventive actions that are sensitive to the nature of these accidents in different temporal and spatial contexts.

Crime and safety in rural areas -- Reasons why crime and safety in rural areas matter -- Current knowledge on crime and safety in rural areas -- Crime, offenders and victims -- Safety perceptions in rural areas -- Police and criminal justice -- Crime prevention and safety interventions -- Emergent topics in research in rural areas -- Implications for practice -- Conclusions and recommendations.

"No city environment reflects the meaning of urban life better than a public place does. 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 crosscutting 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 articles 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"--

PART I -- Crime and fear in public places: An Introduction Chapter 1. Crime and fear in public places: Aim, scope, and context Chapter 2. The circumstances of crime and fear in public places: A Review of theories Chapter 3. The architecture of crime and fear of crime: Research evidence on lighting, CCTV and CPTED features PART II -- The environment Chapter 4. Do green areas affect crime and safety? Chapter 5. Safety of urban park users: The case of Poznań, Poland Chapter 6. The role of public places in Disability Hate Crimes (DHC) PART III -- The movement Chapter 7. Youth safety in public transportation: The case of Eastern Mexico City, Mexico Chapter 8. Transit safety among college students in Tokyo/Kanagawa, Japan Chapter 9. Women and LGBTI youth at target: Assessing transit safety in Rio Claro, Brazil Chapter 10.

This edited collection provides an original and comprehensive take on retail crime and its prevention, by combining international data and multidisciplinary perspectives from criminologists, economists, geographers, police officers and other experts. Drawing on environmental criminology theory and situational crime prevention, it focusses on crime and safety in retail environments but also the interplay between individuals, products and settings such as stores, commercial streets and shopping malls, as well as the wider context of situational conditions of the supply chain in which crime occurs. Chapters offer state-of-the-art research on retail crime from a range of countries such as Australia, Brazil, Israel, Italy, Sweden, the UK and the USA. This methodological and well-researched study is devoted to both academics and practitioners from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds whose common interest is to prevent retail crime and overall retail loss. The chapters 'Crime in a Scandinavian Shopping Centre' and 'Perceived Safety in a Shopping Centre' are published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.--