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Is It Just a Guessing Game? The Application of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) to Predict Burglary

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  • Leanne Monchuk
  • Ken Pease
  • Rachel Armitage

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Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) aims to reduce crime through the design of the built environment. Designing out crime officers (DOCOs) are responsible for the delivery of CPTED by assessing planning applications, identifying criminogenic design features and offering remedial advice. Twenty-eight experienced DOCOs from across England and Wales assessed the site plan for one residential development (which had been built a decade earlier) and identified crime risk locations. Predictions of likely locations were compared with 4 years’ police recorded crime data. DOCOs are, to varying extents, able to identify locations which experienced higher levels of crime and disorder. However, they varied widely in the number of locations in which they anticipated burglary would occur.

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  • Leanne Monchuk & Ken Pease & Rachel Armitage, 2018. "Is It Just a Guessing Game? The Application of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) to Predict Burglary," Planning Practice & Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(4), pages 426-440, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cpprxx:v:33:y:2018:i:4:p:426-440
    DOI: 10.1080/02697459.2018.1510276
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