The two projects aimed at testing the CPTED-principles (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) in ‘ordinary’ Finnish cities. An outside evaluation of the city centres’...
The concrete aim of the project was to make sure that the end of school year weekend would go without problems, be safe and violence free as well as to prevent similar events as...
The detailed city plan of the Muotiala area is the first detailed city plan in Finland that systematically takes into account the goal of safety in the built environment.
In 2002, Brest Métropole Habitat set up a security observatory whose aim was to track three types of trouble: attacks on public buildings, incidents in public areas and attacks on...
The implementation of the Educational Workshops initiative aims to meet educational and social objectives, as well as facilitating mediation, solidarity and social links. It seeks...
“… fear of crime can be regarded as a social problem comparable to crime itself” (National Crime Prevention Program 1999). The Finnish definition of crime prevention focuses on...
The ambition of this project is to show the alternatives of handling, to realize the danger, to increase one’s self-assurance, to boost the overall feeling of safety and finally to...
This community-based work model aims to accommodate different kinds of people and their ways of using public spaces in a neighbourhood. In addition, the project implements an...
Social workers in police stations is a nation-wide programme that consists of hiring social workers to be posted at police stations to welcome and orientate any person that is...