Rape Places

The Nature of Rape Places: From Metrics to Space-time Methods

Vania Ceccato, from the Royal Institute of Technology, made a contribution to the 2012 Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, in the category “Traditional and New Forms of Crime and Deviance,” under the title “The Nature of Rape Places: From Metrics to Space-time Methods”. Here is the abstract: This presentation has two objectives. The first is to shortly present the development of the research on rape places and review spatial methods and techniques used to understand their nature. The second objective is to present results from some of these methods applied to a sample of rape places in the capital of Sweden, Stockholm. The presentation concludes with an assessment of these spatial methods applied to rapes, pointing out directions for future analysis and research. This study is part of the ongoing FORMAS research project entitled “Putting women in their place: city environment and female mobility, lessons from cases of outdoor rapes”.[rtbs name=”criminology”]

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• “The Nature of Rape Places: From Metrics to Space-time Methods”, by Vania Ceccato (Proceedings)