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CPTED Principles

CPTED is an agenda that is usually used to manipulate the environment until it is safe for people to live in. It works by preventing ad reducing various criminal cases from happening in a given neighborhood. It was implemented in 1960, and it was first exercised by the Americans (Marzbali et al. 2012).

Surveillance is an informal and formal way of providing security to a particular neighborhood. It is necessary as the formal ways involve the CCTV camera, police officer and watchmen. Furthermore, this is not enough because sometimes the crimes, robbery and theft cases are performed by people from society. Hence, there is need to have eyes of the street that is people from the neighborhood acting as spies and reporting any suspicious activity. This enables the community as the people who were selected to be the eyes of the community know nearly everyone in society. Areas that have a high level of surveillance cover prevent high cases of crime rates as criminals are scared of being caught (Atlas, 2013).

Secondly, there is the natural access control that is able to attract some people from accessing a particular point and restrict others from reaching that point. This means that it will protect the community by making it difficult for offenders to access particular points that are easily attacked because there will be measures that are put in place. This can be done by nearly all household where they will be able to protect themselves from any unauthorized people. In addition, it will make the criminals too, and the fear being caught since some measures are put in place to protect them. This method can include wayfinding and legibility where the area through the community is understood well, and the paths are memorized in people’s minds. This can be achieved by giving people a choice by establishing where they move to and the paths they take by providing relevant street lights, signage and clear sightlines for the pedestrians (Kang & Park, 2013).

Territorial reinforcement is a great principle as it enables an individual to guard their own territory by building walls and fences so that any person that is found in that particular space is reported to the police station as trespassing. This will prevent regular attacks and robbery as everyone will remain where they are allowed to be, and hence thieves will have no chance to steal people’s items (Reynald, 2011).

In conclusion, when all these principles are practised in a neighborhood there will be a limited amount of criminal cases that will be experienced. It is good to protect one another even while the defense and police are doing their part to guard communities.

References

Atlas, R. I. (2013). 21st-century security and CPTED: Designing for critical infrastructure protection and crime prevention. CRC Press.

Kang, S. J., & Park, M. R. (2013). A Study on the safer parks using CPTED principles. Journal of the architectural institute of Korea planning & design, 29(3), 125-134.

Marzbali, M. H., Abdullah, A., Razak, N. A., & Tilaki, M. J. M. (2012). The relationship between socio-economic characteristics, victimization and CPTED principles: evidence from the MIMIC model. Crime, law and social change, 58(3), 351-371.

Reynald, D. M. (2011). Translating CPTED into crime preventive action: A critical examination of CPTED as a tool for active guardianship. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 17(1), 69-81.