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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Reducing Residential Crime through Design — Theory, Policy and Practice
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Front Matter
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What Works in Reducing Residential Crime through Design
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Front Matter
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Conclusion
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Reviews
"Crime Prevention through Housing Design: Policy and Practice clearly contributes to advancing our understanding of the nature of the relationship between the urban environment and crime. The author recognizes that the field of crime prevention by housing design has been often misunderstood, and been treated as being theoretically shallow, as the less sexy part ofcriminology (in the author's own words), but Armitage rises to these challenges with great skill in this accomplished and relevant book. [It] is definitely a must-read for anyone who has a theoretical and practical interest in the importance of the urban environment on crime causation." - Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
"This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with crime and disorder in the built environment. It combines an encyclopaedic knowledge of relevant research with clear advice to practitioners and policy-makers. Planners and politicians whose decisions shape our towns and cities must heed Rachel Armitage's sensible and well-founded recommendations about simple ways to make us all safer." - Ken Pease, Visiting Professor of Crime Science, UCL, UK
"This book is a globally-significant milestone in the discipline which deftly synthesises this complex field for researchers and advanced practitioners alike; presents, and substantially adds to, over a decade of the author's own top-quality applied empirical research on crime, crime prevention practice and policy that impacts on the daily life of all of us; and provides a launch platform for further studies that is simultaneously sturdy and stimulating." - Paul Ekblom, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Rachel Armitage is Reader in Criminology and Deputy Director of the Applied Criminology Centre at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She has worked in the field of community safety and criminology since 1998, including three years as a Senior Consultant for Nacro and one year as a Senior Research Fellow at the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, UCL. She has published extensively on the subject of designing out crime, specifically the UK Secured by Design award scheme and special editions of the Built Environment Journal on Sustainability via security and international perspectives on planning for crime prevention.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Crime Prevention through Housing Design
Book Subtitle: Policy and Practice
Authors: Rachel Armitage
Series Title: Crime Prevention and Security Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316059
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-35617-7Published: 23 August 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34739-1Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31605-9Published: 23 August 2013
Series ISSN: 2946-3513
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3521
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 230
Topics: Design, general, Policing, Social Policy, Crime and Society, Urban Studies/Sociology, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general