Environmental Manipulation As A Crime Reaction Paper

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Along the same lines incivilities deals with the notion that low level breaches of community standards indicate erosion of conventionally accepted norms and values enhancing people's fear of crime and signaling that a particular area is out of control, possibly increasing the incidence of crime (298). Worrall notes that CPTED works to inhibit criminal activity in areas such as residences and areas surrounding residences, businesses, public transportation locations, such as bus terminals and airports, parking garages, and open spaces through target hardening interventions environmental modifications, and increased awareness of law abiding citizenry. These interventions include; access control -- that practice of limiting access to only legitimate users and target hardening, that is efforts to make it more difficult for criminals to target specific locations, surveillance...

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In areas where CPTED interventions have been implemented statistics show that crime rates have decreased. Reduction of situational and opportunistic conditions for criminal activity through environmental manipulation works.

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Worrall, J.L. (2008). Crime control in America:What works? Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.


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