Crime-free Housing in the 21st Century (Paperback)

This book sets out to investigate the relationship between crime and the design and planning of housing, and to produce practical recommendations to help architects and planners to reduce crime. The book builds upon and updates research originally published in Crime Free Housing (1991), providing an easily accessible, high quality, and well presented account of crime and housing layout. The book focuses on strategies for reducing four different types of crime through better design, including: Burglarydiscouraging people from trying to break into houses; Car crimeproviding a safe place to park cars; Theft around the homeprotecting the front of the house, as well as items in gardens, sheds, and garages; Criminal damageminimizing malicious damage to property.

General

Imprint:	Jill Dando Institute Of Crime Science
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2005
First published:	2006
Authors:	Barry Poyner
Foreword by:	Ronald V. Clarke
Dimensions:	297 x 210 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	144
ISBN-13:	978-0-9545607-3-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Welfare & benefit systems Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Causes & prevention of crime Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Emergency services > Police & security services
LSN:	0-9545607-3-6
Barcode:	9780954560737

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