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鈥楥RIME PREVENTION THROUGH Environmental Design鈥� (CPTED) is the title of a European Commission (EC)-backed research initiative designed to produce a set of coherent strategies for dealing with various forms of urban crime and anti-social behaviour.

Based on the premise that: 鈥淭he proper design and effective use of the built environment can lead to a reduction in the fear and incidence of crime, and to an improvement in peoples鈥� quality of life鈥�, the project has been managed by the UK鈥檚 星空传媒 Research Establishment (BRE) and led by a Steering Group of international experts (including practitioners and academics from Estonia, Germany, Greece, Poland and the Netherlands as well as the UK). UK participants have included ACPO CPI, Perpetuity Research and Consultancy International and the Metropolitan Police.

The project鈥檚 output comprises an evaluated overview of European CPTED practices, focusing on exemplars formed into a 鈥榯oolkit鈥� of crime and anti-social behaviour prevention tactics. The following tools were identified for detailed analysis, and to form part of the finished toolkit:

• crime opportunity profiling of streets (UK);
• children and space (Netherlands);
• virtual crime prevention through environmental design (Netherlands);
• visual inspection/鈥檚tickers to safety鈥� (Netherlands);
• police-labelled secure housing (Netherlands);
• criminological regional analyses (Germany);
• integrated audits in crime prevention and traffic safety (Germany).

Research to date has demonstrated that the most effective strategy thus far adopted across Europe combines physical approaches (focusing on architecture, urban planning and target hardening, etc), social approaches (looking at the victims, offenders, guardians, city management strategies and maintenance, etc) and organisational approaches.

The latter is based upon focusing solely on structuring the partnership process of implementing measures.

Buoyed by support from The BRE Trust, members of the project team will be holding a conference at Mander Hall, Hamilton House in London on 30 September at which the full project report and toolkit will be launched.