Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED): A Review and Modern Bibliography

This paper reviews the core findings from recently published place-based crime prevention research. It critically evaluates the available evidence on the contribution of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) as a crime prevention strategy.CPTED is both an increasingly fashionable app...

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Main Authors: Cozens, Paul, Saville, G., Hillier, D.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Emerald Group Publishing 2005
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19408
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Hillier, D.
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description This paper reviews the core findings from recently published place-based crime prevention research. It critically evaluates the available evidence on the contribution of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) as a crime prevention strategy.CPTED is both an increasingly fashionable approach and is being implemented on a global scale (Cisneros, 1995). Additionally, individual components such as territoriality, surveillance, maintenance, access control, activity support and target-hardening are being widely deployed. However, the evidence currently available is inconclusive and much criticised, which effectively prevents widespread intervention and investment in such an approach by central government. The authors detail the difficulties associated with demonstrating the effectiveness of CPTED and conclude that although empirical proof has not been definitively demonstrated, there is a large and growing body of research, which supports the assertion that CPTED is a pragmatic and effective crime prevention tool. This review provides an extensive bibliography of contemporary CPTED and a follow-up paper will discuss the future research priorities for CPTED.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-194082017-09-13T15:57:25Z Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED): A Review and Modern Bibliography Cozens, Paul Saville, G. Hillier, D. This paper reviews the core findings from recently published place-based crime prevention research. It critically evaluates the available evidence on the contribution of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) as a crime prevention strategy.CPTED is both an increasingly fashionable approach and is being implemented on a global scale (Cisneros, 1995). Additionally, individual components such as territoriality, surveillance, maintenance, access control, activity support and target-hardening are being widely deployed. However, the evidence currently available is inconclusive and much criticised, which effectively prevents widespread intervention and investment in such an approach by central government. The authors detail the difficulties associated with demonstrating the effectiveness of CPTED and conclude that although empirical proof has not been definitively demonstrated, there is a large and growing body of research, which supports the assertion that CPTED is a pragmatic and effective crime prevention tool. This review provides an extensive bibliography of contemporary CPTED and a follow-up paper will discuss the future research priorities for CPTED. 2005 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19408 10.1108/02637470510631483 Emerald Group Publishing fulltext
spellingShingle Cozens, Paul
Saville, G.
Hillier, D.
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED): A Review and Modern Bibliography
title Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED): A Review and Modern Bibliography
title_full Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED): A Review and Modern Bibliography
title_fullStr Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED): A Review and Modern Bibliography
title_full_unstemmed Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED): A Review and Modern Bibliography
title_short Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED): A Review and Modern Bibliography
title_sort crime prevention through environmental design (cpted): a review and modern bibliography
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19408