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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810710103321

Titolo

Tourism and crime : key themes / / edited by David Botterill and Trevor Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Goodfellow Publishers, c2010

ISBN

1-282-89715-2

9786612897153

1-906884-87-0

600-00-4073-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BotterillDavid

JonesTrevor

Disciplina

364.9

Soggetti

Crime

Tourism - Safety measures

Tourists - Crimes against

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction: Tourism Studies and Criminology; Part I: Tourists as Victims; 2 Property Crime and Tourists; 3 Violent crime and tourists; 4 Vulnerable Victims; Part II: Tourists as Offenders; 5 Child Sex Tourism: Is extra-territorial legislation the answer?; 6 Flying without Wings: drug tourism and the political economy of pleasure; 7 Blagging Leads and Other Hustles: British street workers in Tenerife's timeshare industry; Part III: Responses to Tourist-related Crime; 8 Cross-border Cooperation in Criminal Investigations

9 The Preventive Turn in Crime Control and its Relationship with Tourism10 Governing Security in Tourist Spaces; 11 Tourism, Image and Fear of Crime; 12 Dark Tourism and Sites of Crime; 13 Conclusions: Mapping a Research Agenda; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Recent years have seen growing media and political attention to the issue of tourism and crime in a number of countries. Issues such as drugs tourism, sex tourism & alcohol-related crime and disorder have highlighted crimes and rule-breaking by tourists