Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I International Criminology
- Part II Law, Punishment, and Crime Control Philosophies of the World
- Part III Transnational Crime
- 14 Drug Trafficking
- 15 Understanding Trafficking in Human Beings
- 16 International Trafficking of Stolen Vehicles
- 17 Transnational Firearms Trafficking
- 18 Trafficking Antiquities
- 19 The Illegal Cigarette Trade
- 20 Cybercrime
- 21 International Fraud
- 22 Money Laundering
- 23 Child Pornography
- 24 Maritime Crime
- 25 Transnational Environmental Crime
- 26 The Bhopal Gas Disaster and Corporate Criminal Negligence
- 27 Endangered Species Markets
- 28 Corruption
- 29 Tourist and Visitor Crime
- Part IV Organized Crime and Terrorism
- Part V International crime
- Part VI Delivering International Justice
- Part VII International Cooperation and Criminal Justice
- Part VIII International Research and Crime Statistics
- Part IX International research resources
- World Map
- Index
- References
29 - Tourist and Visitor Crime
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I International Criminology
- Part II Law, Punishment, and Crime Control Philosophies of the World
- Part III Transnational Crime
- 14 Drug Trafficking
- 15 Understanding Trafficking in Human Beings
- 16 International Trafficking of Stolen Vehicles
- 17 Transnational Firearms Trafficking
- 18 Trafficking Antiquities
- 19 The Illegal Cigarette Trade
- 20 Cybercrime
- 21 International Fraud
- 22 Money Laundering
- 23 Child Pornography
- 24 Maritime Crime
- 25 Transnational Environmental Crime
- 26 The Bhopal Gas Disaster and Corporate Criminal Negligence
- 27 Endangered Species Markets
- 28 Corruption
- 29 Tourist and Visitor Crime
- Part IV Organized Crime and Terrorism
- Part V International crime
- Part VI Delivering International Justice
- Part VII International Cooperation and Criminal Justice
- Part VIII International Research and Crime Statistics
- Part IX International research resources
- World Map
- Index
- References
Summary
Many nations depend on tourism for their prosperity, yet tourists are very vulnerable to crime. This chapter puts tourist crime in a larger visitor perspective with concepts that can apply within and between nations, for those who travel both long and short distances from home. This chapter delineates tourist crime as part of a larger category, “visitor crime.” Not only do visitors fall victim to crime but they also often participate in other ways, such as committing offenses when they visit. In addition, many people work or engage in recreation outside their residential area, even if they return home in the evening. Visitors are a diverse population, including (a) seasonal visitors, (b) overnight visitors, (c) day visitors, and (d) night visitors. Overnight visitors include foreign tourists, tourists within nations, and short-term visitors for pleasure and business purposes. Each of these subpopulations contributes to crime opportunity in their own way. We present a typology of visitor crime to assist officials and researchers who study crime events that involve one or more visitors.
TOURISTS AND VISITORS
Visitors are often crime victims. For example, Chesney-Lind and Lind (1986) studied mean annual crime rates per 100,000 in Honolulu, finding that robbery rates were 256 for visitors and 157 for residents. In Barbados, de Albuquerque and McElroy (1999) report burglary rates in 1989 of 2,173 for visitors compared to only 847 for residents. Visitors were four times as victimized as residents. Although these ratios were somewhat lower in subsequent years, the same general conclusion remains. Stangeland (1995) investigated tourist victimization in an interesting way, interviewing tourists in the Malaga, Spain, airport as they waited to leave the country. Despite visiting only a week or so, a very high percentage of visitors had been victimized.
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- International Crime and Justice , pp. 223 - 228Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010