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3 results foundAuthor: Liedl, Claudia Title: Top-down vs. Bottom-up: Does a top-down approach bear more advantages than a bottom-up approach within the implementation process of housing security projects? Summary: In March 2004 the European Commission enacted a legal act in order to manifest crime prevention within the European Union. This act aimed at the prevention of domestic burglary, violent crime and high-volume crime. The Council Decision of May 2001 stated that crime prevention covers all measures that are intended to reduce or otherwise contribute to reducing crime and citizens' feeling of insecurity, both quantitatively and qualitatively, either through directly deterring criminal activities or through policies and interventions designed to reduce the potential for crime and the causes of crime. It includes work by government, competent authorities, criminal justice agencies, local authorities, specialist associations, the private and voluntary sectors, researchers and the public, supported by the media (Europea - Summaries of EU legislation, 2006). This is a very broad definition of crime prevention; this study does only focus on a small part of it. The case study carried out in this thesis comprises two projects based on the crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) theory. In the study two CPTED projects (a German and a Dutch one) which deal with housing security are investigated. As they are already evaluated by other scholars this will not be the purpose of the study. This thesis compares the two ways of implementing a project bottom-up and top-down and therefore deals with the research question whether a top-down approach bears more advantages than a bottom-up approach within the implementation process of housing security projects. Details: Twente: University of Twente, Centre for European Studies, 2011. 94p. Source: Internet Resource: Thesis: Accessed July 27, 2012 at: http://essay.utwente.nl/61106/1/BSc_B_Liedl.pdf Year: 2011 Country: Europe URL: http://essay.utwente.nl/61106/1/BSc_B_Liedl.pdf Shelf Number: 125792 Keywords: Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTDesign Against CrimeDomestic BurglaryHousing Security (Germany, Netherlands) |
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: Hirschfield, Alex Title: The Health Impact Assessment of the Home Office Reducing Burglary Initiative Summary: There is an increasing body of literature, which considers not only the negative health impacts of crime on individuals and communities, but also the nature and context of fear of crime. This element, which is not easily explained by either experience or risk of crime, has only recently been further explored. The health impacts of property crimes such as theft and burglary are, however, the least well documented of all crime types. Researchers have even less frequently examined the preventive and protective effects on health of crime prevention; this is probably the first study approaching this subject directly for the area of domestic burglary. Emerging Health Impact Assessment (HIA) methods offer mechanisms for identifying and exploring the potential links between health and non-health policies, programmes or projects (Lock, 2000). The current rapid HIA study has applied an 'off-the-shelf' method for HIA, the Merseyside Guidelines (Scott-Samuel et al., 1998) to the Home Office's national Reducing Burglary Initiative (RBI), both prospectively and retrospectively in selected local case study projects. Details: Liverpool: Urban Research and Policy Evaluation Regional Research Laboratory (URPERRL), University of Liverpool, 2001. 89p., app. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 6, 2015 at: http://www.apho.org.uk/resource/item.aspx?RID=44393 Year: 2001 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.apho.org.uk/resource/item.aspx?RID=44393 Shelf Number: 135522 Keywords: Burglary (U.K.)Crime PreventionDomestic BurglaryFear of CrimePsychological Health |