We are happy to invite you to submit a paper for the "Urban Crime- An international Journal" for a special issue titled "Covid-19 and Urban Safety: Exploring the effects of the pandemic on fear of crime, (in)security, penal and safety policies in urban context".
Indicative topics of interest for this issue include:
- Dimensions to fear of crime/insecurity during the pandemic
- Risks of victimization during the pandemic
- Commerce in Illicit and falsified medicinal product
- Fraud, corruption and financial crime in emergency conditions
- Cybersecurity
- The impact of the pandemic in Urban life and crime
- Mass-Media
- Misinformation and disinformation
- Policing and Surveillance during the CoViD-19 pandemic
- Inner-city distribution of (un)safety
- Priorities of penal policies during the pandemic
- New forms of policing adapted to the pandemic conditions
- Objective punitivity during the pandemic period
- Prevention policies
- Public attitudes