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.
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...
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...
“… 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...
Public perceptions of safety reflects the individual’s view of aspects of the environment coupled with, or in addition to, issues of perceived, or actual signs or events, of...