This is a pioneering book that contributes to the understanding of power and sexual harassment overall. It visualizes the right to mobility and to safe spaces as crucial for work, education and participation in public life.
Anna Wahl, Professor, Gender, organization and management, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
A much-needed source of literature that addresses an overlooked issue systematically on a global scale. As indeed, this is not a womens issue, but a fair and standard urban and transport planning issue, an everyday mobility need, an essential service provision issue, a common sense, and simply a basic human right to be able to travel and do his/her activity safely and freely. A good reference for everyone who wishes to provide an inclusive, seamless, door-to-door journey, for everybody.
Yusak Susilo, Professor, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria
This book comprehensively focuses on the horrendous impact of sexual harassment and assault in public transport on women students worldwide, highlighting an innovative set of parallel studies which reveal how much fear for their personal security affects the lives of these students and how little public officials have done to respond.
Sandi Rosenbloom, Professor, Community and Regional Planning, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
The book is the product of critical reflection on current transit crime and sexual violence globally in both the Global North and Global South. Each piece seeks to characterize the dynamics of transit crime, in particular, sexual harassment and violence, from the perspective of those who are most targeted by these offences, namely young people and women. Focus is given to the relationship between safety and the types of environments that individuals are exposed to when they travel, which means that the book adopts a whole journey approach to safety.
Juma Assiago, Head, Safer Cities programme, UN-HABITAT
Transit Crime and Sexual Violence in Cities
How cities are planned and designed has a major impact on individuals mobility and safety. If individuals feel unsafe in public transportation or on the way to it, they may avoid certain routes or particular times of the day. This is problematic, since research has also found that, in some cities, especially those in the Global South, a large percentage of women are transit captives. Namely, they have relatively less access to non-public forms of transportation and are, therefore, especially reliant on public transport. This issue is important not only because it affects peoples safety but also because it influences the long-term sustainability of a city. In a sustainable city, safety guarantees the ability to move freely for everyone and provides a wider sense of place attachment.
Transit Crime and Sexual Violence in Cities examines the evidence of victimization in transit environments in countries around the world, exploring individuals feelings of perceived safety or lack thereof and the necessary improvements that can make transit safer and, hence, cities more sustainable. The books contributions are grounded in theories at the crossroads of several disciplines such as environmental criminology, architecture and design, urban planning, geography, psychology, gender and LGBTQI studies, transportation, and law enforcement. International case studies include Los Angeles, Vancouver, Stockholm, London, Paris, So Paulo, Mexico City, Bogot, Tokyo, Guangzhou, Melbourne, and Lagos, among others.
Vania Ceccato is Professor at the Department of Urban Planning and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. She is the author of several books, including Moving Safely: Crime and Perceived Safety in Stockholms Subway Stations, and co-editor of Safety and Security in Transit Environments: An Interdisciplinary Approach.
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris is Professor of Urban Planning and Associate Dean of the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. She is the author or editor of eight books, the most recent of which are: The Informal American City, Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends?, New Companion to Urban Design, and Urban Humanities.
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This book is dedicated to all those working to reduce sexual violence in public environments around the world.
Anabel A. Abuzo is Associate Professor and Chair of the Civil Engineering Department of Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan. She received her doctor of engineering degree at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Her research includes civil, environmental, transportation, and built environment engineering applications. She is a core member of the Women in Transport Leadership.
Augustine O. Agugua lectures in the Department of Sociology, University of Lagos, Akoka, where he obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology. He has contributed chapters in many books and journals, both within and outside Nigeria, and has presented several papers on policy and research issues in various conferences and workshops, locally and internationally.
Srgio Luis Antonello is a lecturer in computer science at Fundao Hermnio Ometto (FHO) at Araras, SP, Brazil. His main research areas include programming languages, algorithms, data structures, and geoprocessing. He is also a computer analyst at the Environmental Analysis and Planning Centre (CEAPLA) at the So Paulo State University (UNESP).
Madeline Brozen is a transportation researcher and serves as deputy director for the UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. Her research focuses on understanding the travel and mobility needs of understudied groups of people and travel modes, with the goal of making academic research useful to decision-makers and advocates.
Vania Ceccato is Professor at the Department of Urban Planning and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. She is the author of several books, including Moving Safely: Crime and Perceived Safety in Stockholms Subway Stations
