LEARNING, TRANSLATING, AND IMPLEMENTING CPTED

摘要

An increasing number of planning and design professionals are being asked to participate in crime prevention as part of community and neighborhood problem solving. Unlike traditional crime prevention practice, which focuses on security hardware, they become involved in an approach known as Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, or CPTED, which deals with aspects of building design, site amenities, street patterns, and other planning/design-related issues. Since CPTED's introduction almost three decades ago, its basic principles have changed very little, while research in environmental criminology has revealed much about the relationship between the environment and opportunities for crime. Thus, the state-of-the-art of CPTED is, in large part, determined by the extent to which planners and designers are exposed to this new information and whether they are able to use it as they make decisions about future land use and development. This article reviews the various mechanisms available for learning about crime, criminals, and crime prevention. It also examines the ways that CPTED is institutionalized into daily decision making. Though some of these hold the potential for being successful with regard to crime prevention, the absence of any evaluation of the methods means that their true impact can only be estimated.