Vania Ceccato

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Vania Ceccato is a Professor at the Department of Urban Planning and Environment, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden and affiliated to University de Campinas, Brazil. Ceccato’s research is on the situational conditions of crime and crime prevention in urban and rural environments. She is interested in the relationship between the built environment and crime and perceived safety, in particular, the space-time dynamics of crime and people’s routine activity. Gendered safety and the intersectionality of victimization are essential components in her research. Main research areas are transit safety, crime geography, housing and community safety, rural crime, retail crime. She has published in international journals in Criminology, Geography and Planning. The use of geographical methodologies, combining both quantitative and qualitative methods, has been a common feature of her research. She is the coordinator of the Urban & Community Safety Research Group, which has recently become a partner of UN-Habitat SaferCities program. Ceccato is also the coordinator of Safeplaces network (Säkraplatser), which is a national network that aims to improve knowledge and practices in situation-based crime prevention in Sweden. She is also member of board as well as peer reviewer for international journals and has assessed numerous research proposals from Sweden, continental Europe, and the USA. Ceccato is author of Rural crime and community safety by Routledge, 2016 and Moving Safely: Crime and Perceived Safety in Stockholm's Subway Stations, by Lexington books, 2013 and with prof Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Transit Crime and Sexual Violence in Cities (2020). She was editor of The urban fabric of crime and fear, published by Springer in 2012 and co-editor of Crime and fear in public places (2020) with Prof Mahesh Nalla, co-editor of Safety and Security in Transit Environments: An Interdisciplinary Approach, with Associate professor Andrew Newton, published by Palgrave, 2015, Retail Crime: International Evidence and Prevention, co-edited with Prof Rachel Armitage. Ceccato has been appointed as International Ambassador of British Society of Criminology (BSC) in 2016. Ceccato’s profile and work is available at her profile at KTH, ResearchGate, academia, Twitter, Google citations.