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  2. Crime prevention through environmental design - Wikipedia

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    The phrase crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) was first used by C. Ray Jeffery, a criminologist from Florida State University. The phrase began to gain acceptance after publishing his 1971 book of the same name. Jeffery's work was based on the precepts of experimental psychology represented in modern learning theory. (Jeffery ...

  3. Defensible space theory - Wikipedia

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    Oscar Newman's basic five principles of designing defensible space as quoted in Design Guidelines for Creating Defensible Space are as follows: The assignment to different resident groups the specific environments they are best able to utilize and control, as determined by their ages, life-styles, socializing proclivities, backgrounds, incomes ...

  4. Natural surveillance - Wikipedia

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    Natural surveillance is a term used in crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) models for crime prevention. Natural surveillance limits the opportunity for crime by taking steps to increase the perception that people can be seen.

  5. Talk:Crime prevention through environmental design - Wikipedia

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    Crime prevention through environmental design: Numerical investigation of environmental factors affecting security in sports facilities. Retos: nuevas tendencias en educación física, deporte y recreación, (54), 746-753.--Lamiot 14:29, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

  6. Dead-end street - Wikipedia

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    CPTED planning principles suggest increased natural surveillance and sense of ownership as a means of fostering security in a neighbourhood. Both of these phenomena occur naturally on a cul-de-sac street as does social networking. Design guidelines based on the CPTED perspective recommend its use for those reasons.

  7. Target hardening - Wikipedia

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    Security measures taken to protect the Houses of Parliament in London, UK.This hostile vehicle mitigation is a common form of target hardening and is designed to prevent a vehicle being rammed into the building or into people on the pavement next to the building.

  8. Crime prevention - Wikipedia

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    Clarke proposed a table of twenty-five techniques of situational crime prevention but the five general headings are: Increasing the effort to commit the crime; Increasing the risks of committing the crime; Reducing the rewards of committing the crime; Reducing any provocation for committing the crime; Removing any excuses for committing the ...

  9. Community greens - Wikipedia

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    [5] The Luzerne Glover neighborhood now has their green alleyway, and is the first community in Baltimore to use the Gating and Greening Alleys ordinance. [ 6 ] So far, seven Baltimore communities have successfully completed this process and have created eight useful Community Greens from the underutilized alleyways in their backyards.