On CPTED - Crime Prevention through Urban Design

[2000] There is not in the Europe any single or common definition of crime preventive planning and design that is agreed upon, but crime prevention can generally be defined as both the purpose of reducing actual crime and the increase in the feeling of safety and security. Crime prevention, as a whole, is a wide concept that covers law and order, social and educational policies, and intervention in the built urban environment. It includes e.g. the police, the justice system, surveillance systems and guards, local co-operation between schools, social authorities and the police, and technical crime prevention of different kind - everything from locks, bolts and alarms on doors and windows to careful urban planning.

Bo Grönlund, On CPTED - Crime Prevention through Urban Design, Stockholm: The Rådberg seminar 'Towards the Humane City for the 21st century', 2000-09-28.

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