E-DOCA
Statements and recommendations about the collaboration between environmental design/planning specialists and crime experts are becoming more and more common nowadays in European countries. These statements and recommendations are based on assumptions regarding the inter-relationships between the physical environment and human behaviour. Hence urban planning has an impact on crime and fear of crime by influencing the conduct and attitudes of offenders and potential victims (and/or targets) of crime or victims of fear of crime.
Research and experiments (see the documents on this website) show that particular types of crime can be reduced by modifying the opportunity for crime in the built environment without displacement of crime taking place.
With your help we will present on this website of the European Designing Out Crime Association (E-DOCA) more and more useful links, resources, research, instruments and examples of old and new approaches of crime prevention through environmental design and designing out crime.
This website is designed and structured in such a way that we can accommodate documents, conference papers, articles, reports, manuals, references and bibliographies but also links to other useful and relevant websites as well as the latest information about national and international events (conferences, workshops, excursions).
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Below you will find the collection of all the english items in this website.
English items in this website
A CPTED Bibliography 1975 - 2011
[2012] Publications related to urban space, planning, architecture and crime prevention through environmental design, 1975 - 2011
CPTED is 40 this year. Collumn Gregory Saville
Professor C. Ray Jeffery's book "CPTED" was published in 1971. Oscar Newman's "Defensible Space" in 1972. That's four decades of preventing crime. In an age before prevention was situational, crime ...
Designing Out Crime - A Designers' Guide
[2011] This practical guide will give design practitioners, clients, educators and students useful information about how the design of products, services and communications can help to prevent crimes ...
Public-Private Partnerships and Community Safety: Guide to Action
[2011] A practical guide that demonstrates how companies can engage in community safety. This guide is designed to help companies gain a better understanding of the importance of community safety and ...
La prevention situationelle
[2011] Situational crime prevention: Genesis and development of a practical science. In many countries today, situational crime prevention is a strategic research sector in the battle against ...
Does regulation of built-in security reduce crime? Evidence from a natural experiment.
[2011] We provide evidence that large-scale government intervention in the use of self-protective measures lowers crime. Since 1999, all new-built homes in the Netherlands have to have ...
Fast Food, Easy Money
[2010] A series of burglaries at fast food outlets reveals many security lessons, including simple ways to enhance security at these types of facilities and why franchisors may want to be more ...
Charter for a democratic use of video-surveillance
[2010] The project "Citizens, Cities and Video-Surveillance", supported by the Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Programme of the European Commission, was about reflecting on and exchanging ...
Crime Prevention and Community Safety
[2010] Providing a large panorama of prevention in the world, the Report 2010 'Trends and Perspectives' examines in particular the impact of migration, organized crime and substance abuse on ...
SafeGrowth: Moving Forward in Neighbourhood Development
[2009] Sustainable strategies for crime prevention rarely, if ever, find their way into the formal design and planning of urban places. This article illustrates how an alternative planning process ...
World class places, the government’s strategy for improving quality of place
[2009] The way places and buildings are planned, designed and looked after matters to all of us in countless ways. The built environment can be a source of everyday joy or everyday misery. It is an ...
Working out what to do: Evidence-based crime reduction
[2002] The aim of this report is to help police services and local partnerships approach crime prevention and problem-solving in a coherent, informed and structured way, to improve prospects for real ...
Predicting the targets of household burglars
[1998] PhD - research project to produce a model showing how elements of the built environment could be used to predict the chances of a home being burgled.
