About

In the Urban & Community Safety Research Group, we work with a number of issues concerning the built and social environment and people’s safety and security. A focus in our research is on how the urban environment can be designed to prevent crime and increase security in society. We examine, for example, crime and fear based on an interaction of factors such as gender, age, physical and psychological ability, socio-economic status or other individual characteristics. This may, for example, be about architecture and the construction of residential areas, but also about minor changes in an unsafe or crime-ridden place in a large or smaller, rural municipality. We also work with safety as a public health problem, linking the quality of the built environment to risks of, for example, falling among the elderly or suicide or people’s access to blue light services.

The group includes a number of researchers, doctoral students and students at KTH and / or other universities / organizations. The group is currently active collaboration with The City of Stockholm / The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (BRÅ), The Federation of Swedish Farmers (LRF), the Swedish Transport Administration, Karolinska Institutet and Södertörn University.

The Urban & Community Safety Research Group  is led by Prof Vania Ceccato.

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