Tourism and Crime

freelance academic and higher education consultant and Professor Emeritus in the Welsh Centre for Tourism Research, University of Wales Institute Cardiff

…this book is unique because it brings together tourism scholars, criminologists, and social scientists with diverse backgrounds. The result is a cohesive and comprehensive piece of work, which encourages a potentially fruitful dialogue between tourism studies and criminology. This book can be recommended to anyone who may be interested in understanding the relationship between tourism and crime, including undergraduate and graduate students.Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 38, No. 4, 2011

• Introduction: Tourism Studies and Criminology; Part One: Tourists as Victims, 2 Property Crime and Tourists, 3 Violent crime and tourists, 4 Vulnerable Victims; Part Two: Tourists as Offenders/Offenders as Tourists, 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 Three: Responses to Tourism and Crime, 8 Cross-border cooperation in criminal investigations, 9 The preventive turn in crime control and its relationship with tourism, 10 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