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 National Crime Prevention Programme entitled Working Together for Safer and More Secure Communities, prepared by the National Council for Crime Prevention, aims to promote...
At national level an integral and integrated approach of robbery is considered important. For the period 2012-2015 the Belgian government has decided that severe violence crimes...
The public perception of safety reflects the individual’s view on aspects of the environment and issues of perceived or actual signs of criminality, appearance of disorder and the...
Safety and its opposite, fear of crime, are two important and central issues in crime prevention efforts. Recent years have brought a significant increase in the number of studies...
In Denmark robbery is considered a very serious crime as it contains elements of both enrichment and violence or coercion. The maximum penalty for robbery is thus also considerably...
“… 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...