Reimagining Urban Safety in Latin America: An Introduction

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Volume 52 – Number 3

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With studies from Argentina,Brazil, Chile, and Mexico this issue examines how urban safety is approached, experienced, and contested in different contexts, from inequality, informality, victimization, policing practice, community initiatives, spatial infrastructure, transit environments.

03 Sep 2026

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• Reimagining Urban Safety in Latin America: An Introduction
  VANIA CECCATO and ALEJANDRA LUNEKE
   
• Proximity and Fear: The Walking Behaviour of Older Adults in the Face of Perceived Insecurity in Chile and Mexico
  GIOVANNI VECCHIO, GABRIELA OCHOA-COVARRUBIAS, ALEJANDRA LUNEKE and ALEJANDRO PÉREZ-DUARTE FERNÁNDEZ
   
• Thefts and Robberies in Transit Environments: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis in Pandemic Times in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  RAFAEL LARA MAZONI ANDRADE, VITOR SOUSA GONÇALVES and VANIA CECCATO
   
• Crime and Fear in Chilean Informal Settlements
  MARÍA PAZ TREBILCOCK and ELIZABETH ZENTENO
   
• Exploring Children’s Understanding of Crime, Safety and Police
  ROSARIO PALACIOS, GABRIELA PIÑA, FRANCISCA AVENDAÑO and ANTONIA FUENZALIDA
   
• Mapping Fear in Public Space: A Micro-Spatial Analysis of Women’s Perceived Safety in a Medium-Sized City in Brazil
  MARIA ClARA M. DE OLIVEIRA, AGNES SILVA DE ARAÚJO, SILVANA CAMBOIM and JOÃO VITOR M. BRAVO
   
• Security and Socio-Spatial Configurations in Informal Settlements of Buenos Aires, Argentina
  MARIANA FERNÁNDEZ, LEANDRO GAMALLO and LAIZ MAMANI
   
• Guarded Bus Stops (GBSs): Opportunities and Limitations of Abrigo Amigo: A Technology-Based Safety Intervention for Women in Brazilian Cities
  VANIA CECCATO
   
• A Reminder of Earlier Issues of Built Environment focused on Urban Safety, Crime, and Violence

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