Handbook on cities and crime / edited by Dietrich Oberwittler (Professor of Sociology, Research Group Space, Contexts, and Crime, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Germany) and Rebecca Wickes (Professor of Criminology, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University, Australia).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oberwittler, Dietrich, editor.

Wickes, Rebecca, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (506 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

"With insightful contributions from eminent scholars in the field, this multidisciplinary Handbook provides an authoritative overview of scholarship on cities and crime. It discusses contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches to urban crime research, as well as its practical implications and psychological impacts. Synthesizing a wealth of international research, chapters cover aspects of urban crime ranging from immigration, disasters and gentrification, to more specific challenges such as adolescent delinquency, gangs and hate crime. Highlighting the diversity of crime in cities, the Handbook emphasises the need to broaden perspectives beyond those usually observed in the Global North. Expert authors evaluate future avenues for preventing and controlling crime in cities, including alternative approaches to policing, digital surveillance and smart cities. Incisive and forward-looking, the Handbook on Cities and Crime is a vital read for academics and students in criminology, sociology, human geography and urban studies. Scholars and practitioners in fields such as housing, policing and ethnography will also benefit greatly from its insights"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Introduction

1. Cities and crime - a perennial perspective on the ecology of crime / Dietrich Oberwittler and Rebecca Wickes

Part I: Theoretical approaches

2. Collective efficacy and crime in urban neighbourhoods / Rebecca Wickes and Charles C. Lanfear

3. Disorder, incivilities, and broken windows / Kevin Drakulich

4. Place based and routine activity theories / Elizabeth R. Groff and Young-An Kim

5. Integrative models: Merging offender-based and event/place-based approaches / John R. Hipp

6. Rethinking the political economy of urban violence and crime / Juan Albarracin

Part II: Methodological innovations

7. Urban ethnography / Luca Berardi and Sandra Bucerius

8. Micro-places, multi-level frameworks, and modeling the spatial granularity of crime / Cori Schnell and M. Dylan Spencer

9. Advancing perspectives in urban crime studies: Computational techniques and new forms of data / Reka Solymosi and Aeon Kim

10. Neighborhood connectedness and crime using mobility data / Brian L. Levy and Drew Bonner

Part III: Experiences and analyses of urban crime

11. City-level drivers of urban violence: Identifying key predictors in the past, present and future / Karen F. Parker and Cresean Hughes

12. Immigration and crime around the globe: Key findings across a diverse range of contexts / Charis E. Kubrin and Elliott J. Alvarado

13. Urban crime in the global south: The experience of Latin America / Kees Koonings

14. Urban neighborhoods and adolescent delinquency / Dietrich Oberwittler

15. Gentrification and urban crime / Lyndsay N. Boggess and Lexi Gill

16. Crime in the restive city: Globalisation, illicit labour and urban change / Alistair Fraser and Tilman Schwarze

17. Hate crime in urban environments: Dynamics, causes and consequences / Kathryn Benier

18. The city and collective violence / Tim Newburn

19. Exceptional events and disasters as turning points in place-based trajectories of crime / Jason L. Payne and Cameron T. Langfield

Part IV: Perceptions of crime and insecurities

20. Fear of crime in urban environments / Michael Chataway, Timothy C. Hart and Jacques Mellberg

21. Urban insecurities, fear of crime, and popular culture / Murray Lee and Alex Simpson

22. Safety in cities for girls and women / Gill Matthewson and Nicole Kalms

Part V: Preventing and controlling crime in cities

23. Crime prevention in the city: A current status and new directions for crime prevention through environmental design (cpted) / Paul Cozens and Frank Stoks

24. Urban policing and the problem of street stops / Ben Bradford and Arabella Kyprianides

25. Community-oriented policing and politics: The "other police" in comparative perspective / Sebastian Roché and Laural Miller

26. Crime control in the smart city: The nexus between big data, predictive policing, surveillance, and smart nudges / Lieke Bisschops and Marc Schuilenburg

27. Sedimented surveillance in southeast asia's "smart' city-state: The case of singapore / Orlando Woods, Al Lim and Lily Kong.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781800375710 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.