Factsheet: Gender Inclusivity

The (en)gendering of urban security is a key trend in urban security, as highlighted by the IcARUS State of the Art Review. This evidenced the extensive and growing research that identifies the multiple ways in which gender plays a key role in how people perceive, experience, and produce security. Yet, it also revealed how this has largely failed to be translated into current urban security policies and programmes, in particular with regard to juvenile delinquency, radicalisation, safe public spaces and organised crime.
Both gender specific tools and gender specific indicators have been absent from much of the discussion, leaving a critical gap in our understanding, implementation, and evaluation of urban security policy.