Urban Crime Prevention

This book provides an original cross-thematic and wide scope review of crime prevention processes in urban areas that are explicitly based on the cooperation between different scientific and professional fields. Focusing primarily on environmental and community-based crime prevention, this book compiles a peer-reviewed collection of papers and prospective essays that explore how, and to what extent, multi-disciplinarity can be used as a cornerstone for achieving safer cities.

Relying on the input from specialists, researchers, decision-makers, and practitioners from around the world, it covers the various stages from theory to implementation, by discussing theoretical stances, interpreting policy and planning guidelines, uncovering unique educational experiences, and narrating insights and lessons learned from innovative research and practice. Hence, it provides vivid discussions and invaluable insights into processes of partnership building, planning, and management, oriented towards establishing successful mechanism for preventing crime and reducing feelings of insecurity in urban areas.

Presents multi-disciplinary approaches to urban crime prevention Presents step-by-step accounts of interdisciplinary partnerships which allow disseminating innovative experiences Includes chapters that deal with urban crime and the impacts of the pandemic

Auteur

Miguel Saraiva is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, and a researcher at CEGOT - the Centre of Studies on Geography and Spatial Planning. A Civil Engineer with a Doctoral degree on Territorial and Environmental Planning, he mostly deals with the geographical and environmental perspectives of urban safety and quality of life, within the frameworks of territorial and social cohesion, whilst relying in the modelling and spatial analysis' capacity of Geographical Information Systems.
He has been associated with several national and international projects on crime prevention, including TUD COST Action TU1203-Crime Prevention through Urban Design and Planning (2012-2016); project Erasmus+ SWaPOL - Social Work and Policing: Vocational Training in Public Order Management (2018-2021) led by the European Centre for Social Welfare; and being the coordinator of project CANVAS - Crimeand Violence Prevention through Smart Planning and Artistic Resistance (2018-2022, funded by the Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology and COMPETE 2020).

Contenu

Editorial.- Part 1: Multidisciplinarity in theory and education.- Plural security: Diverse disciplines, multiple actors.- Third Generation CPTED Integrating crime prevention and neighbourhood liveability.- Social work and policing: Multidisciplinary vocational trainings for urban security.- From the borders and edges: Youth cultures, arts, urban areas and crime prevention.- Part 2: Multidisciplinarity in policy and planning.- Standardisation and multidisciplinary processes in urban crime prevention. The only crime prevention standard in Europe since the Roman Empire: From the CEN 14383 series to the worldwide ISO 22341:2021.- Local safety contracts: Profiling a multi-disciplinary and multi-level cooperation for crime prevention.- Beyond simplicity Urban security as a diverse and transdisciplinary approach.- The quarter as new level of urban crime prevention.- Part 3: Multidisciplinary in research and practice.- Multidimensionality in geospatial urban crime prevention modelling and decision support: The case of Porto, Portugal.- Incivilities in public spaces and insecurity. A case study in Bologna, Italy.- The role of the perception of fear in the disintegration of neighbourhoods and the appearance of crime.- CPTED evolution, from Latin America to the World.- Make the World yours! Arts-based research in action in the Cerco do Porto neighbourhood.- 'A revolution without death'. Hip-hop as a weapon against violence.