Vania A Ceccato

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. She coordinates the national network Safeplaces (Säkraplatser) funded by The Swedish National Crime Prevention Council (BRÅ). 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 victimisation 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, mostly in Criminology, Geography and Urban Planning and is the author of Rural crime and community safety (2016, Routledge), Moving Safely, Crime and perceived safety in Stockholm's subways stations (2013), the editor of The urban fabric of crime and fear (2012) and co-editor of Safety and Security in Transit Environments: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2015, Palgrave) with Andrew Newton and co-editor of Retail crime: International Envidence and Prevention (2018, Palgrave) with Rachel Armitage.

Vânia Ceccato é professora no Departamento de Planejamento Urbano e Meio Ambiente, Escola de Arquitetura, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Estocolmo, Suécia. Sua área de especialização é segurança urbana e rural com uma abordagem spatial. Trabalha com uma combinação de metodos quantitativos e qualitativos, especialmente Sistemas de Informação Geografico (GIS) e técnicas de estatística espacial. Ceccato tem publicado em periódicos internacionais principalmente em Geografia, Criminologia, Planejamento Urbano e é a autora dos livros Rural crime and community safety (2015, Routledge) e Moving Safely, Crime and perceived safety in Stockholm's subways stations (2013) e editora de The urban fabric of crime and fear (2012) e co-editora de Safety and Security in Transit Environments: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2015, Palgrave). Ceccato administra a userlist TCR-Network, Transit Crime Research Network with more than 90 members worldwide.Ceccato é também membro da European Society of Criminology Working Group Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice e da COST Action TU1203 ? Crime Prevention through Urban Design and Planning e COST Action GenderSTE que é iniciativa da communidade Européia que visa integrar as dimensões de gênero na ciência e tecnologia e promovendo a participação das mulheres na ciência e tecnologia através de mudanças estruturais. Ceccato foi apontada em 2015 embaixadora internacional da Sociedade Britânica de Criminologia (British Society of Criminology International Ambassador).Mais detalhes, veja https://www.kth.se/profile/vace/https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vania_Ceccatohttps://kth.academia.edu/VaniaCeccato