Crime and Fear in Public Places: Towards Safe, Inclusive and Sustainable Cities (Routledge Studies in Crime and Society) - Softcover

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Vania Ceccato is a Professor at Department of Urban Planning and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Her research covers the situational conditions of crime and fear in urban and rural environments. Gendered safety and the intersectionality of victimization are essential components in her research. She is the author of several books, including Rural Crime and Community Safety and is co-editor of Transit Crime and Sexual Violence in Cities. She is the national coordinator of Safeplaces, which is a network for knowledge sharing between academia and practice devoted to the situational conditions of crime and best practices in situational crime prevention.

Mahesh K. Nalla is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. His research interest centers on crime governance with a focus on public and private policing. His research has appeared in the Journal of Research and Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, and Annals of the American Political and Social Science, among others. He has coordinated and led a global project into firearm-related violence prevention programs for the United Nations and crafted the International Protocol Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition and Other Related Materials, as a supplement to the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime.