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To create safer
environments and
improve the quality
of life through the use
of CPTED principles
and strategies
Latest News
November 15, 2008
Saskatoon Approves New CPTED Policy
Due in a large part to one of our newest ICA Board members, the City of Saskatoon, Canada has the following document available - City of Saskatoon CPTED Review Admin Policy as approved by the City Manager and Senior staff on Sept 16th, 2008
September 4, 2008
DOCA Newsletter
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July 21, 2008
ICA Newsletter - CPTED Perspectives Available!
The latest ICA Newsletter, CPTED Perspectives is now avilable for download! To get your copy Click here!
CPTED In The News
Chesterfield Observer (subscription) - Chesterfield,VA,USA B. Code Amendment Relative to CPTED Standards., An ordinance to amend the Code of the County of Chesterfield, 1997, as amended, by amending and re-enacting ...
November 14, 2008
Suggested Reading Materials
PoliceCommunity Relations in a Majority-Black City by Ronald Weitzer, Steven A. Tuch, Wesley G. Skogan
Minority racial and ethnic groups often view themselves as targets of abusive treatment at the hands of the police. Although racial variation in public assessments of the police in the United States has been amply documented in past research, less research has explored the sources of these differences at the intersection of demographic, interactional, and ecological levels. This article examines the role of each factor in shaping citizens' perceptions of police misconduct, racial differences in these perceptions, and the reasons underlying them. The locus of the study is also important. Most research on policecommunity relations has been conducted in cities whose populations and police departments are majority White in composition, despite the growing number of minority-White cities. The present study draws on data from residents of a majority-Black city with a majority-Black police department: Washington, DC. The findings contribute to our understanding of policing in such underresearched cities.
Examining Personal Security and Avoidance Measures in a 12-City Sample by Matthew J. Giblin
Existing research has recognized the multidimensional nature of self-protective behaviors. Using secondary data collected by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, this study examined the predictive ability of measures related to policing, lifestyles, victimization, neighborhood conditions, and demographic characteristics in explaining six types of protective behavior. Results suggest that factors such as awareness of community policing, satisfaction with police, perceptions of disorder, and sex are consistently related to protective measures, whereas the influence of other factors (e.g., personal victimization, race) varies according to the behavior analyzed.
Welcome to the ICA Downloadable Resources Section
This page will list downloadable resources for the CPTED Practitioner. If you are aware of an online resource or would like to submit something for listing please
If you utilize resources from these sources please remember to give credit to the author/publisher. Please report broken links to the office by email.
Downloadables
- Residence Hall Architecture and Sense of Community - Everything Old Is New Again by Ann Sloan Devlin, Sarah Donovan, Arianne Nicolov, Olivia Nold and Gabrielle Zandan, Connecticut College
Download - Nonpermanent Residents, Place Attachment, and Sea Change Communities, Gail Kelly, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Karin Hosking, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Sustainable Ecosystems
Download - Association Between Physical Environment of Secondary Schools and Student Problem Behavior, A National Study, 2000-2003 by Revathy Kumar, University of Toledo and University of Michigan and Patrick M. OMalley, Lloyd D. Johnston, University of Michigan
Download - Does Main Street Promote Sense of Community? A Comparison of San Francisco Neighborhoods by Rocco Pendola, University of California, Irvine and Sheldon Gen, San Francisco State University
Download - Original paper describing SafeGrowth: A New Way Forward. Presented at the United Nations Urban Habitat forum in Santiago, Chile and also the 2007 Canadian Institute of Planners convention.
Download - Non-residential Crime Attractors and Generators Elevate Perceived Neighborhood Crimeand Incivilities - Temple University
Download - 2ND GENERATION CPTED: An Antidote to the Social Y2K Virus of Urban Design
Download - Bexley Town Security Project - Executive Summary & Final Report
Download - Listen to a radio Interview from 2004 with Exec. Director Barry Davidson as he discusses CPTED residential applications.
Download - CPTED: Past, Present and Future by C. Ray Jeffery from ICA Mississauga Conference. Download
- A Sample CPTED Report - 1997 Mike Sheard's Arcade CPTED Award Winning Project. Download
- Implementing CPTED in Residential Neighborhoods Study - National Institute of Justice, 1997, Download
- CPTED Liability Article 1996 - National Institute of JusticeDownload
- Oscar Newman's 1996 Defensible Space publication - US Dept of Housing and Urban Development. Download
- Safety Audit Checklist - Victoria, British Columbia. Download
European Journal of Criminology, Vol. 4, No. 1, 109-128 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1477370807071733
© 2007 European Society of Criminology, SAGE PublicationsAssessing the Regulation of Private Security across Europe
Mark Button, University of Portsmouth, UKThe importance and expansion of the role of private security officers in policing have led many countries to introduce special legislation to govern them. Many industrialized countries have a long history of such measures. The structures and standards introduced, however, have varied significantly. In North America generally minimal standards have been mandated that centre on character. In many European countries, by contrast, standards have been comprehensive, sometimes including hundreds of hours of mandatory training. In England and Wales, however, it was only in 2001 that such legal intervention was finally introduced, and the system that has begun to unfold has caused much debate on its effectiveness. Significant sectors have been excluded, and comprehensive standards of regulation have been rejected for an approach barely above North American standards of governance. This paper will examine the emerging English system of legal control. It will compare some of its features with those of other European countries and produce a league table from this. Reference will also be made to North America and Australia. It will be argued that the system to be introduced for security guards in England and Wales falls below European norms and needs to be more demanding if the performance and accountability of the industry are to be enhanced and the industry is to play the expanding role in policing that many increasingly expect.
- Potty Parity in Perspective: Gender and Family Issues in Planning and Designing Public Restrooms Download
- A short resource how-to from the ICA International Chair, Diane Zahm Download
Understanding and Preventing Car Theft (Crime Prevention Studies, vol. 17)
Michael G. Maxfield and Ronald V. Clarke, eds.
(Paperback)
2004, 256 pages
ISBN: 1-881798-53-4
$42.50Thefts of and from autos are among the most commonly reported crimes, and they account for the highest losses among property crimes that target individuals (except for arson). But according to this new book, recent initiatives in the U.S., Europe and Australia have proven effective or are showing promise in preventing car theft.
In addition to Michael G. Maxfield's introduction, the chapter topics include: (1) the U.K. Car Theft Index (by Gloria Laycock); (2) preventing vehicle crime in Australia through public-private parterships and national collaboration (by Ray Carroll); (3) improved vehicle licensing and registration systems in the U.K. (by Barry Webb, Melissa Smith and Gloria Laycock); (4) reduction of abuses involving temporary license tags in North Carolina (by Matthew White and Charles W. Dean); (5) the impact of electronic immbolizers (by Rich Brown); (6) measures to enhance parking lot security (by Pat Mayhew and Greg Braun); (7) action implications of crime analyses involving parking lot auto thefts in Chula Vista, California (by Nancy Plouffe and Rana Sampson); (8) police intelligence and the theft of vehicles for export from the U.K. (by Rick Brown and Ronald V. Clarke); (9) publicity campaigns and car crime prevention (by Emmanuel Barthe); and (10) the history of car safety improvements compared to enhanced car security in the U.S. (Graeme R. Newman).
George L. Kelling and Michael L. Wagers of the Police Institute at Rutgers University state in the Foreword that " analyzing problems and collaboration are the future of criminal justice. This volume on understanding and preventing car theft offers a glimpse of that future, illustrating what can be gained through collaborative problem solving across sectors and jurisdictions."
From a review by Martin Wright in Professional Security magazine (Feb. 2005): "...this is a very valuable publication that has certainly raised a number of wide ranging thoughts within the mind of this reviewer. If a book is to be assessed by its ability to make one think, then this publication is worth its weight in gold."
- Evidence about CPTED and crime - Paul Cozen's paper for the Australian Institute of Criminology 2005Download
- Apartment Crime - Eric McCord's paper at 2005 ICA Conference, Santiago, Chile Download
- Community Capacity Building Download
- Creating Defensible Space Download
- Gang Homicides - Designing Out Download
- Graffiti prevention Download
- Liability and CPTED Download
- Parking Facilities and CPTED Download
- Physical Environment and Crime Download
- Street Robberies - Tactics to Prevent Download
- Subway Crime and CPTED - Nancy LaVigne's paper to the annual ICA Conference, Washington, DC 1998Download