Crime Prevention and Exclusion: from Walls to Opera Music

This article is about Scandinavian crime-preventing urban planning. At the beginning of the 1970s, a new urban planning movement called Crime Prevention trough Environmental Design emerged (CPTED). The basic idea behind CPTED as well as Scandinavian crime prevention is to prevent crime with inclusiv...

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Autor principal: Midtveit, Elen (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electronic/Print Artículo
Lenguaje:Lengua no determinada
Publicado: 2005
En: Journal of Scandinavian studies in criminology and crime prevention
Año: 2005, Volumen: 6, Número: 1, Páginas: 23-28
Acceso en línea: Volltext (doi)
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Sumario:This article is about Scandinavian crime-preventing urban planning. At the beginning of the 1970s, a new urban planning movement called Crime Prevention trough Environmental Design emerged (CPTED). The basic idea behind CPTED as well as Scandinavian crime prevention is to prevent crime with inclusive measures. Instead of building walls and fences one should rather mark territories with symbolic measures. This article questions whether physical (hard) delineation of territory is really different from symbolic (soft) delineation. It discusses the ideas informing crime prevention planning and argues that both soft and hard measures share a similar objective: to protect us against someone or prevent someone from accessing an area
ISSN:1404-3858
DOI:10.1080/14043850510035137