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Results for design against crime (u.k.)
4 results foundAuthor: Teedon, Paul Title: Secured By Design Impact Evaluation: Key Findings Summary: The Caledonian Environment Centre was commissioned by Glasgow Housing Association, Strathclyde Police and the Association of Chief Police Officers Crime Prevention Initiatives to carry out quantitative and qualitative analysis of the impact of Secured By Design (SBD) door and window installation within GHA housing stock. The evaluation was also supported by the Scottish Government. The primary aim of this commission was to investigate the impact of SBD installations on the level of crime, primarily housebreaking, in areas where the installations have been implemented; and to explore tenant and LHO perspectives on potential related effects, such as satisfaction with the installations and perceptions of safety within the home and surrounding area. Details: Glasgow: Caledonian Environment Centre, School of the Built and Natural Environment, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2009. 19p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 11, 2012 at: http://www.securedbydesign.com/professionals/pdfs/SBD-Evaluation-Key-Findings-2009.pdf Year: 2009 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.securedbydesign.com/professionals/pdfs/SBD-Evaluation-Key-Findings-2009.pdf Shelf Number: 125977 Keywords: BurglaryDesign Against Crime (U.K.)Housing and CrimeSituational Crime Prevention |
Author: Association of British Insurers Title: Securing the Nation: The Case for Safer Homes Summary: Domestic burglary also has a high social cost. It has a disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable in society, who also have the least home security protection and the least ability to bear the financial impacts of a burglary. Households without any security devices (such as deadlocks, window locks, security lights, CCTV and burglar alarms) are more than four times as likely to be burgled than those with. There is a role for proportionate crime reduction measures to be designed into homes at the very first stages of development and during refurbishment, rather than added as an optional extra after the fact. Building Regulations on security should be developed now so that current opportunities – a relatively benign economic cycle and a push for growth in housing (the London Plan alone identifies the need for 345,000 new homes to be built in London by 2016) – are not lost. The Sustainable and Secure Buildings Act 2004 offers a unique opportunity to address the heavy ongoing costs of crime through developing and implementing a new Part S on minimum standards of security to Building Regulations. An established and well-regarded base – the Association of Chief Police Officers’ initiative Secured By Design (SBD) – already exists from which regulation and supporting guidance should be developed. In particular, SBD’s physical security measures on external doors and windows (the most used points of entry by burglars) provide an appropriate basis for regulation and already provide cross-compliance with existing regulation (such as Part L on energy conservation). In addition to setting a minimum standard for security, Building Regulations can ensure a proportionate response to differing and changing crime risks by requiring a risk assessment and by developing guidance to, and a technical specification of, higher standards. This would also encourage the consideration of the Government’s planning system advice in ‘Safer Places’. Details: London: Association for British Insurers, 2006. 31p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 22, 2012 at http://www.securedbydesign.com/professionals/pdfs/Securing%20the%20Nation%20-%20the%20case%20for%20safer%20homes.pdf Year: 2006 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.securedbydesign.com/professionals/pdfs/Securing%20the%20Nation%20-%20the%20case%20for%20safer%20homes.pdf Shelf Number: 126083 Keywords: Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTDesign Against Crime (U.K.)Domestic BurglaryHousing Security (U.K.) |
Author: Brooke, Michael Title: Design and Access Statements: How to Use Them to Prevent Crime Summary: One of the biggest problems that the field of planning for crime prevention has faced is the fact that, too often, crime prevention when it is considered at all in the design process is merely an afterthought. The consequence of this, very frequently, is that the scope for reducing the opportunity for crime to be committed via the design process becomes limited. Experience suggests that, once design ideas get established, developers and their agents are often unwilling to change them very significantly to incorporate something that hasn’t been thought about properly up to that point, and of course to incur the extra costs associated with undertaking further design work. And the consequence of this is that, unfortunately, the opportunity to incorporate crime prevention concerns into a development layout has often not been taken as fully as it could have been. But it doesn’t need to be like this, and Design and Access Statements provide an opportunity for the development community to face this issue more effectively than has often been the case to date. The key to this is thinking about the kinds of crimes that the type of development being proposed is likely to be subject to right at the start of the development process (which can be established from crime statistics and from police advice), and then creating strategies to reduce the likelihood of these crimes occurring as an integral part of initial design thinking about the project rather than as a later consideration. This guide gives lots of helpful advice about the kinds of things that developers and their agents need to think about when tackling the issue of planning for crime prevention in this manner. Adopting this approach in turn should mean that the requirements of paragraph 132 of Communities and Local Government’s publication ‘Guidance on Information on Requirements and Validation’ (March 2010) can readily be met when preparing a Design and Access Statement. Details: London: ACPO Secured by Design, 2010. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 8, 2012 at http://www.securedbydesign.com/pdfs/Design%20and%20Access%20Statements%20-%20How%20to%20use%20them.pdf Year: 2010 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.securedbydesign.com/pdfs/Design%20and%20Access%20Statements%20-%20How%20to%20use%20them.pdf Shelf Number: 126646 Keywords: Crime PreventionCrime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTDesign Against Crime (U.K.)Public Space |
Author: Armitage, Rachel Title: It Looks Good, but What is it Like to Live There? Exploring the Impact of Innovative Housing Design on Crime Summary: This paper reports on the findings of a collaborative project (funded by the Home Office and managed by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment - CABE) which was conducted in late 2009 and early 2010. The project set out to strengthen and update the evidence base on the impact of design on a range of crime types – with a specific focus upon housing developments acclaimed for their innovative design and award winning architecture. This paper presents the findings of an in-depth assessment of the impact of housing design features on crime. Utilising a comprehensive data collection exercise, the specific design features of thousands of homes were collated and assessed against police recorded crime data. The design features were based upon the key elements of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) including road layout, house design, surveillance, territoriality, car parking, communal space, management and maintenance and physical security. The unique and painstaking methodology not only provided an excellent dataset for analysis, but also highlighted the need both for greater conceptual clarity within CPTED and for crime-risk assessments to be based on the careful operationalisation and measurement of CPTED factors. As well as assessing the impact of specific (and combined) design features upon crime, the research also resulted in the production of a new data collection tool designed to address the weaknesses of existing checklists in assessing innovative contemporary developments, which are often unconventional in nature. The paper explores the degree of conflict and/or synergy between the traditional principles of CPTED and contemporary directions in architecture and design. Finally the paper considers the extent to which traditional CPTED principles remain relevant within contemporary residential developments and explores whether areas of revision are required. Details: Huddersfield, UK: Applied Criminology Centre, University of Huddersfield, 2011. 30p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 19, 2013 at: http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/9356/ Year: 2011 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/9356/ Shelf Number: 129662 Keywords: Car ParksCrime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTDesign Against Crime (U.K.)Housing and Crime |