Designing Crime Free Environments: Broadening the Crime Prevention Repertoire.

摘要

Over the past two decades, immediate action to reduce crime opportunity has steadily grown as an area of research and policy. These efforts include Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), which seeks to design microenvironments to be inhospitable for crime. In addition, numerous experiments and quasi-experiments in Instituational crime prevention have gotten even more specific in thwarting criminal opportunities. These efforts do not seek merely to help one set of victims to shift their risk to others. Additional knowledge about crime displacement gives us reason to believe that crime prevention efforts can decrease overall crime rates significantly. Moreover, there is increasing reason to believe that crime can be prevented at remarkably little cost in money, complexity, or controversy. This project, 'Designing Crime-Free Environments,' draws upon the growing crime prevention tradition. The project objectives were: 1. To interview a large number of people from diverse walks of life about their experience in crime prevention. 2. To compile from these sources a large number of crime prevention ideas, old and new, especially those which are inexpensive and uncomplicated. 3. To sift and organize these ideas into a broader repertoire of crime prevention- options. 4. To draw from these options in suggesting future strategies for crime prevention. In particular, we have sought to demonstrate that crime prevention goes beyond such simple advice as put in more lights, cameras, or hire more guards. In general, we have increasing confidence that it is not necessary to wait for a crime to happen and then try to apprehend the offender.