Jonatan Abraham

I am a PhD-candidate at the department of Urban Planning and Built Environment, School of Architecture and the Built Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.  I am currently a member of the Urban & Community Safety Research Group and the Safeplaces network here at KTH. My research interests lies in understanding the role of place for safety and security.

My focus currently is exploring methodology to conceptualize and measure safety perceptions and fear of crime in the context of the built environment: whether through more traditional methodology such as surveys and spatial statistical analyses/GIS,  or more emergent techniques such as machine learning models, Big Data, and crowdsourcing data through apps.

I am also interested in crime and safety beyond the "big cities", with a number of co-authored publications within the field of Rural Criminology (see publications).