Crime Risk Assessment for CPTED: Tools and Policy Applications

• No.15
• 2016.08.01
• Hit 748
• Cho, Youngjin Associate Research Fellow
• Cho, Sangkyu Research Fellow
• Kim, Seungnam Associate Research Fellow

  CPTED(Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design), which aims to create a safe environment based on environmental criminology, has been actively introduced in Korea through the revision and enactment of related laws since the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport provided the Secure Design Guideline in 1992.

  It is important to conduct crime risk assessments in terms of factors causing crimes and crime hotspots, as CPTED strategies are to minimize potential risks from crimes in certain areas. Even though a considerable number of CPTED systems provided by central and local governments have promoted the importance of crime risk assessments, there is a lack of consideration in different characteristics of regions, projects and stakeholder’s conditions.

  The purpose of this research is to classify measurement tools through analysis of case studies and standardize crime risk assessment tools for increasing the effectiveness of CPTED-related projects. Also, this research suggests a crime risk assessment model that can be easily applied to the practices and improvement of CPTED systems for central and local governments.