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CPTED is 40 this year. Collumn Gregory Saville

Ita Luten — 2011-12-13T12:00:00Z

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 was designed out, policing was intelligent or activities routine, CPTED led the way.

2012: CPTED Training, Conferences, and Workshops in 2012

Ita Luten — 2011-10-26T13:30:00Z

Upcoming CPTED Training 2012 from the National Institute of Crime Prevention USA.

More: CPTED Training 2012.

Designing Out Crime - A Designers' Guide

Ita Luten — 2011-10-25T22:00:00Z

[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 occurring, lessen their impact, aid the recovery of stolen items or help apprehend offenders. It’s a resource which will help designers of all disciplines to find out more about understanding users and abusers, thinking creatively about solutions to the social challenges that crime presents and applying foresight when considering how the products and services they create will be used and misused

Public-Private Partnerships and Community Safety: Guide to Action

Ita Luten — 2011-08-31T22:00:00Z

[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 the role that the private sector can play in it, mobilize the right partners and identify ways of engagement to work on initiatives to improve community safety. Finally, it intends to inspire these companies by presenting promising actions that have been implemented throughout the world. Soon to be published in English

La prevention situationelle

Ita Luten — 2011-08-31T22:00:00Z

[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 crime. Originating within the Home Office Research Unit in the UK during the mid 1970s, this ‘new technology’ has the purpose of developing crime prevention solutions by intervening in situations where crime commonly occurs. What has now come to be called “crime science” is based on an array of practical knowledge, evolves between research laboratories and various professional sectors (police, town planning, etc.), uses evidence based research, and implements its theoretical discoveries in socio-technical innovations (prevention and risk reduction systems). This thesis retraces the development of situational crime prevention technology to have a closer look at the controversies from which it takes its shape. By describing this crime science-in-the-making, from state laboratories and international policy transfers, from research studies and instrumentation, we reveal all the entities(researchers, government, theories, instruments, statistical classes, risk models, offenders, victims, technical standards, etc.) to which situational crime prevention has become tied, and untied. Thus, we demonstrate that concrete links weaved between researchers and their different allies go far beyond personal relationships, touching the very core of the technology. As such, situational crime prevention is constituted as a collective, political entity.

Does regulation of built-in security reduce crime? Evidence from a natural experiment.

Ita Luten — 2011-04-30T23:10:00Z

[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 burglary-proof windows and doors. We find the regulatory change to have reduced burglary in new-built homes from 1.1 to 0.8% annually, a reduction of 26%. Even though the regulation of built-in security does not target preventative measures at homes that are most at risk, the social benefits of the regulation are likely to exceed the social costs.

Fast Food, Easy Money

Rein Meijer — 2010-11-30T23:00:00Z

[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 proative in offering advice to franchises.

Charter for a democratic use of video-surveillance

Rein Meijer — 2010-04-30T22:00:00Z

[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 practices of the use of video-surveillance in the respect of fundamental rights and privacy. Based on the experiences and knowledge accumulated in the project, the 11 partners have developed a charter for the democratic use of CCTV in European cities.

Crime Prevention and Community Safety

Rein Meijer — 2010-03-31T22:00:00Z

[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 community safety. It highlights the importance of good governance frameworks for prevention and safety, training and capacity building for different sectors of the community, and the evaluation of programmes and strategies.

SafeGrowth: Moving Forward in Neighbourhood Development

Ita Luten — 2009-08-31T22:00:00Z

[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 – SafeGrowth – employs a more holistic style of neighbourhood development than occurs in traditional prevention theory. SafeGrowth is a shift towards a new style of prevention theory, one in which safe places emerge less from outside experts implementing strategies to or for neighbourhoods, and more from neighbours creatively planning with prevention experts, police and security. This article also provides a case study illustrating a practical example where SafeGrowth was applied in the planning of a troubled suburban neighbourhood in Toronto, Canada from 2000 to 2009. Crime reduction and increases in community involvement continue today suggesting this is an effective and sustainable method for developing, and redeveloping, urban places in the years to come.

World class places, the government’s strategy for improving quality of place

Kyra Kuitert — 2009-04-30T22:00:00Z

[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 important influence on crime, health, education, inclusion, community cohesion and well-being. This strategy lays out how the Government will, over the next months and years, build on our record and do more to help create great places to live, work and bring up a family.

Working out what to do: Evidence-based crime reduction

Ita Luten — 2002-03-25T23:00:00Z

[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 achievement. It distils principles for effective, evidence-based practice. Drawing mainly on research in the United States and United Kingdom, it discusses the application of six key concepts: aims, problem-specification, tactics, mechanisms, context and replication. The examples used in the report relate specifically to situational crime prevention, for which there is the strongest research base, though the principles would be relevant also to other approaches to prevention. A case study of domestic burglary is presented.

Predicting the targets of household burglars

Ita Luten — 2001-08-31T22:00:00Z

[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.