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

Leanne Monchuk; Kenneth Pease; Rachel Armitage

doi:10.1080/02697459.2018.1510276

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

Leanne Monchuk, Kenneth Pease, Rachel Armitage

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Abstract

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 four 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	426-440
Number of pages	15
Journal	Planning Practice and Research
Volume	33
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2018.1510276
Publication status	Published - 27 Aug 2018

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Leanne Monchuk
- L.Y.Monchuk@hud.ac.uk
- School of Human and Health Sciences - School Director of External Engagement
- Applied Criminology and Policing Centre - Member
- Secure Societies Institute
Person: Academic

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