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Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) is defined as a
multi-disciplinary approach to deterring criminal behavior through
environmental design. CPTED strategies rely upon the ability to
influence offender decisions that precede criminal acts by affecting the
built, social and administrative environment.
Write 3pages using
proper APA format describing what is the field of Crime Prevention
Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and identify some of the strategies
that deter crime in urban communities. How would combing these
strategies with protective barriers enhance crime reduction?
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RUNNING HEAD: CRIME PREVENTION THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
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CRIME PREVENTION THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
The world we live in today is full of crime left and right. There is actually no place where we do
not encounter crimes. Be it urban or rural set ups, they are there. However, the current society is more
focused on approaching crimes from the arrest and judgment perspective rather than actually looking
into an easier way of ending crimes. Some criminals have even reached a point of being immune to the
verdicts they get in a court such that they are never bothered. Such mindsets could rapidly spread to
other criminals on the rise and before it is known a society of criminals has been bred. ( DESIGN, T. E)
Therefore rather than the normal arrest and verdicts it’s better to approach the matter in a completely
different way.
Criminal behaviors can be vastly reduced when approached in a different manner. However the
approach also depends on what type of crime it is where it does occur how often the crime occurs.
Crimes are more frequent in urban regions as compared to the rural regions. Unemployment and
poverty are among the major reasons there is a rapid increase in crimes in the urban regions.
Approaching crimes from an urban context means the introduction and im...
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