Rob Mawby
Biographic Data
| ID | 260455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rob Mawby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rob |
| FAMILY NAME | Mawby |
| SIGNATURE | MAWBY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Plymouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5922-8638 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 111 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 48 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Safer tourist destinations
Do tourists report crime to the police? An exploratory analysis in Barcelona
Police-recorded crime data is commonly used to assess the crime risk of tourists and locals. Police records, however, are affected by different crime reporting rates across population groups. No research has explored the different crime reporting propensities of tourists and locals. We analyse two sets of surveys in Barcelona, a general population survey and a survey to tourists. Our results show that while international tourists are less likely …
Tourism and Crime
It is widely acknowledged that tourists are particularly likely to be victimized, especially with regard to property crimes like theft from tourist accommodation (burglary). Guided by the criminal opportunity perspective, we examine the extent to which environmental and routine activities-related factors explain burglary using the data from a sample of Australian tourists ( N = 1,027). Bayesian variable selection with a stochastic search algorith…
The decision to commit robbery
Explaining Victim Impact from Cyber Abuse
Crime and deviance can have a significant and long-lasting effect on victims. While the literature on victim impact from traditional types of crime like robbery or assault is well established, much smaller scholarship examines the impact of online forms of deviance with only a handful of studies focusing on the experiences of adult victims. The current paper analyses the data from a sample of the U.S. adults (N= 746) using mixed methods to examin…
Tourist security, terrorism risk management and tourist safety
Community safety under lockdown
Perceptions of safety confronted by experience
This paper compares the perceptions of risk and safety of those arriving on a visit to Istanbul with a similar sample of those returning from their trip. While the two samples are of different individuals, the research does provide a proxy measure of change, or lack of it, in the light of personal experience. In this sense, it offers an advantage over traditional crime surveys that present a snapshot of perceptions at one point in time. The findi…
Critiquing the regulation of private security in the United Kingdom
The UK Private Security Industry Act 2001 provided the legal mechanism for the statutory regulation of parts of the private security sector with the explicit aim of reducing criminality in the industry and raising standards. It created the Security Industry Authority as the regulator which commenced operation in 2003. Since then, it has received mixed reviews, and proposals have been forwarded to change its status and the way it works. This paper…
Responding to tourist victims of crime
Policing tourism
Specialist tourist police units are a recent development in many countries where tourism is important to the economy and where crimes associated with tourism are recognised. However, such developments are scarcely universal. This paper focuses on three contrasting examples: the UK, where there are no specialist tourist police, despite a clear relationship between tourism and crime and disorder; Ghana, where tourist police have been introduced rel…
Exploring the relationship between crime and place in the countryside
The Problem of Pleasure
1. Introduction: The Problem of Pleasure - Theoretical Foundations, R. I. Mawby 2. The Paradox of Cinematic Sexual Violence as Entertainment, Jane Monckton-Smith 3. Crime Time: The Rise of Police Programming on Television, Jenny Wise and Alyce McGovern 4. The Making, Shaking and Taking of Public Spaces, Rob White 5. Playgrounds Without Frontiers: Movin', Moddin', Pushing the Boundaries of Pleasure, Zannagh Hatton 6. Impermissible Pleasures in UK …
Burglary
Burglary has all the credentials as the 'folk crime of the new millennium', and is regularly identified as one of the crimes most feared by the public. Victims are particularly affected by burglary, and burglary is generally at the centre of crime prevention and community safety strategies. This book provides an accessible, systematic account of burglary, focusing on the problem of crime in the first main part of the book, and on policy responses…
Doing Probation Work
A great deal has been written about the political, policy and practice changes that have shaped probation work but little has been written on the changes to occupational cultures and the ways in which probation workers themselves view their role. This book fills that gap by exploring the meaning of ‘doing probation work’ from the perspective of probation workers themselves. Based on 60 extensive interviews with probation workers who joined the pr…
A letter from Cyprus
Understanding and Responding to Crime and Disorder
Attempting to Reduce Hotel Burglary
Alternative Measures of ‘Fear of Crime‘
‘Fear of crime’ has aroused considerable academic debate, with criticisms both of exactly what is being measured and analysis of the relationship between fear and risk. At the same time, national and international surveys have increased reliance on a select ‘package’ of measures of fear. Using more precise questions from a rural crime survey conducted as part of the 2001 Crime Audits, this paper argues that locally contextualised surveys offer th…
Evaluation of a National Burglary Reduction Initiative Targeting Older People
Surfing the Crime Net
Hotel Crime
Surfing the Crime Net
Crime and Disorder
While there has, recently, been a spate of research on the victimisation of businesses, rather less research has focused on the perceptions of the business community, and — in contrast to studies of the general public — little emphasis has been placed on explaining variations in concern over crime and disorder. This article uses data from the 2001 Cornwall Business Crime Survey to explore the extent to which business people in a rural county of E…
Reducing Burglary and Fear among Older People
Despite their low levels of risk, older people have been targeted by a number of crime reduction initiatives. This article describes an evaluation of one burglary reduction initiative in Plymouth that involved the local Plymouth Homesafe scheme and Help the Aged. The scheme clearly targeted the more vulnerable groups within the community, and clients were extremely positive about the service and its implementation. However, there was little evide…
Tourist victimisation and the fear of crime on holiday
Victimisation on Holiday
While a number of tourism researchers have considered the relationship between tourism and crime, the topic has rarely been addressed by criminologists, and most of the evidence available is derived from official statistics. Using data from an exploratory survey of people's experiences and perceptions of crime on holiday, this paper assesses the extent to which holidaymakers are victimised. Compared with BCS data, the findings indicate that touri…
Defensible Space
The assertion that where crimes take place is to a large extent determined by physical lay-out has been made forcibly by Oscar Newman in 'Defensible Space', where particular attention is given to the problem of high rise developments. Here, data from a Sheffield survey has been used to test whether area crime patterns do vary with design features. Some differences were found, but these by no means showed high rise flats to be at a disadvantage. T…
Tourist security, terrorism risk management and tourist safety
Exploring the relationship between crime and place in the countryside
Explaining Victim Impact from Cyber Abuse
Crime and deviance can have a significant and long-lasting effect on victims. While the literature on victim impact from traditional types of crime like robbery or assault is well established, much smaller scholarship examines the impact of online forms of deviance with only a handful of studies focusing on the experiences of adult victims. The current paper analyses the data from a sample of the U.S. adults (N= 746) using mixed methods to examin…
Juvenile Delinquency and Police Discretion in an Inner-City Area
C. J. FISHER, R. I. MAWBY; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND POLICE DISCRETION IN AN INNER-CITY AREA, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 22, Issue 1, 1 Janu
Perceptions of safety confronted by experience
This paper compares the perceptions of risk and safety of those arriving on a visit to Istanbul with a similar sample of those returning from their trip. While the two samples are of different individuals, the research does provide a proxy measure of change, or lack of it, in the light of personal experience. In this sense, it offers an advantage over traditional crime surveys that present a snapshot of perceptions at one point in time. The findi…
Attempting to Reduce Hotel Burglary
Press Coverage of Social Work
The ways in which social workers are criticised in the press have led to concern in the profession, especially in cases involving child-battering, and illustrated more recently in press reactions to the social workers’ strike. Here, local and national press reports for two months in 1978 have been analysed to provide a broad picture of press treatment of social work material, both with regard to controversial issues and the day-to-day handling of…
Policing tourism
Specialist tourist police units are a recent development in many countries where tourism is important to the economy and where crimes associated with tourism are recognised. However, such developments are scarcely universal. This paper focuses on three contrasting examples: the UK, where there are no specialist tourist police, despite a clear relationship between tourism and crime and disorder; Ghana, where tourist police have been introduced rel…
Alternative Measures of ‘Fear of Crime‘
‘Fear of crime’ has aroused considerable academic debate, with criticisms both of exactly what is being measured and analysis of the relationship between fear and risk. At the same time, national and international surveys have increased reliance on a select ‘package’ of measures of fear. Using more precise questions from a rural crime survey conducted as part of the 2001 Crime Audits, this paper argues that locally contextualised surveys offer th…
Crime and Disorder
While there has, recently, been a spate of research on the victimisation of businesses, rather less research has focused on the perceptions of the business community, and — in contrast to studies of the general public — little emphasis has been placed on explaining variations in concern over crime and disorder. This article uses data from the 2001 Cornwall Business Crime Survey to explore the extent to which business people in a rural county of E…
Police response to crime
While police structures and functions have changed dramatically in post‐communist societies, as yet little research has been carried out to either evaluate these changes or monitor victims' perceptions of the 'new' police. Here we report on an exploratory study that monitors the experiences of 398 burglary victims in Poland, and compare the findings with those from England. While Polish victims perceived the police as having changed in a number o…
Evaluating Core Policing in Britain
Sex and Crime
Policing by the Post Office
Safer tourist destinations
Community safety under lockdown
Critiquing the regulation of private security in the United Kingdom
The UK Private Security Industry Act 2001 provided the legal mechanism for the statutory regulation of parts of the private security sector with the explicit aim of reducing criminality in the industry and raising standards. It created the Security Industry Authority as the regulator which commenced operation in 2003. Since then, it has received mixed reviews, and proposals have been forwarded to change its status and the way it works. This paper…
Responding to tourist victims of crime
Evaluation of a National Burglary Reduction Initiative Targeting Older People
Reducing Burglary and Fear among Older People
Despite their low levels of risk, older people have been targeted by a number of crime reduction initiatives. This article describes an evaluation of one burglary reduction initiative in Plymouth that involved the local Plymouth Homesafe scheme and Help the Aged. The scheme clearly targeted the more vulnerable groups within the community, and clients were extremely positive about the service and its implementation. However, there was little evide…
Fear of Crime among British Holidaymakers
Journal Article Fear of Crime among British Holidaymakers Get access R. I. Mawby, R. I. Mawby R. I. Mawby, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Community Research Centre, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Plymouth. P. Brunt and Z. Hambly, respectively, principal lecturer and research assistant, Department of Land Use and Rural Management, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Land Use, University of Plymouth. Search for other works by…
A Localised Crime Survey in Contrasting Areas of a City
A crime survey was conducted in seven small residential areas (pop. 2000–3000) in the city of Sheffield, varying in their housing type and offcial crime rates. Within each housing type, the suruey found that official crime statistics were valid indicators of area crime-rate differences. However, the two high-rise housing areas appeartd as more problematic in the crime survey than in oficial data, with a particularly high ratio of survey offeness …
Social Action and Criminological Theory
Defensible Space
The assertion that where crimes take place is to a large extent determined by physical lay-out has been made forcibly by Oscar Newman in 'Defensible Space', where particular attention is given to the problem of high rise developments. Here, data from a Sheffield survey has been used to test whether area crime patterns do vary with design features. Some differences were found, but these by no means showed high rise flats to be at a disadvantage. T…
A Note on Domestic Disputes Reported to the Police
Social Work Under Pressure
ing strike action on a larger scale, and for a longer period, than ever before. To many, such action may seem surprising. Social workers in England have never been parti-cularly well paid, and are in any case seen as protective towards their clients, who are the chief group to suffer from a strike. Why then did the social workers strike? What problems currently face social workers in Britain? Here no attempt can be made to assess the mood of soci…
Policing by the Post Office
Press Coverage of Social Work
The ways in which social workers are criticised in the press have led to concern in the profession, especially in cases involving child-battering, and illustrated more recently in press reactions to the social workers’ strike. Here, local and national press reports for two months in 1978 have been analysed to provide a broad picture of press treatment of social work material, both with regard to controversial issues and the day-to-day handling of…
Sex and Crime
Overcoming the Barriers of Privacy
From the culture conflict theory of crime, it is possible to derive several hypotheses. This article tests the effect of recency of immigration, cultural homogeneity, and percent nondominant ethnic group upon delinquency levels in Israeli communities. When the size of the population and the juveniles population are controlled, none of these variables has a significant effect. Analysis of variance reveals significant urbanization effects, particul…
Policing the City
Juvenile Delinquency and Police Discretion in an Inner-City Area
C. J. FISHER, R. I. MAWBY; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY AND POLICE DISCRETION IN AN INNER-CITY AREA, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 22, Issue 1, 1 Janu
Fear of crime and concern over the crime problem among the elderly
Earlier research has shown that whereas the elderly appear to be relatively protected from crime, they show the most concern about the crime problem. Research from a survey in Sheffield, England, which replicates these findings, is described. However, a contrast emerged between perceptions of crime on a general level and perceptions of area of residence and crime levels within it, which suggests that earlier distinctions between fear of crime and…
A Localised Crime Survey in Contrasting Areas of a City
A crime survey was conducted in seven small residential areas (pop. 2000–3000) in the city of Sheffield, varying in their housing type and offcial crime rates. Within each housing type, the suruey found that official crime statistics were valid indicators of area crime-rate differences. However, the two high-rise housing areas appeartd as more problematic in the crime survey than in oficial data, with a particularly high ratio of survey offeness …
Recent Texts on White-Collar Crime
Journal Article RECENT TEXTS ON WHITE-COLLAR CRIME: AN OVERVIEW Get access VICTIMIZATION AND FEAR OF CRIME AMONG THE ELDERLY. By YVES BRILLON . (Toronto-London: Butterworth. 1987. 119 pp. $13.25.) Rob Mawby Rob Mawby Department of Social and Political Studies, Polytechnic South WestPlymouth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 29, Issue 4, Autumn 1989, Page 432, https:…
Critical Victimology
The authors outline and discuss the issues facing victims today and address the fundamental question: How can we best ensure justice for victims, while at the same time preserving the rights of defendants?
Police response to crime
While police structures and functions have changed dramatically in post‐communist societies, as yet little research has been carried out to either evaluate these changes or monitor victims' perceptions of the 'new' police. Here we report on an exploratory study that monitors the experiences of 398 burglary victims in Poland, and compare the findings with those from England. While Polish victims perceived the police as having changed in a number o…
Evaluating Core Policing in Britain
Ofiary włamań mieszkaniowych (wyniki międzynarodowych badań porównawczych)
Burglary is a serious offense which particularly affects the victim. It often has more one victim, and its effects react on ihe entire family and broader community. For the victim, its important element is not only the loss of and possibly damage to property, but also violation of privacy and of the related feeling of safety. The survey discussed in the paper was conducted in 6 cities in the following countries: Germany - Monchengladbach; Poland …
Providing a Secure Home for Older Residents
This paper describes an evaluation of a crime prevention initiative which was targeted at older local authority tenants in areas of the city where crime was of particular local concern. Our evaluation suggests that it was successful in addressing both crime and fear of crime. Respondents indicated that they were very satisfied with the service and felt safer as a result of it. Moreover, recorded burglary statistics revealed a marked reduction. It…
Introducing the Journal
Victimisation on Holiday
While a number of tourism researchers have considered the relationship between tourism and crime, the topic has rarely been addressed by criminologists, and most of the evidence available is derived from official statistics. Using data from an exploratory survey of people's experiences and perceptions of crime on holiday, this paper assesses the extent to which holidaymakers are victimised. Compared with BCS data, the findings indicate that touri…
Tourist victimisation and the fear of crime on holiday
Victims' Needs and Support for Victims in Prague
Fear of Crime among British Holidaymakers
Journal Article Fear of Crime among British Holidaymakers Get access R. I. Mawby, R. I. Mawby R. I. Mawby, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Community Research Centre, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Plymouth. P. Brunt and Z. Hambly, respectively, principal lecturer and research assistant, Department of Land Use and Rural Management, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Land Use, University of Plymouth. Search for other works by…
Surfing the Crime Net
Surfing the Crime Net
Criminology (36 works) · Sociology (32 works) · Political science (31 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (27 works) · Psychology (27 works) · Law (23 works) · Medicine (19 works) · Fear of crime (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Poison control (17 works)