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 response to tackling domestic violence is included in the Governments Call to End Violence Against Women and Girls. Published on 25 November 2010, the strategic narrative sets...
Prevention of domestic violence has ascended on the Finnish political agenda since the 1980s. It became even more visible in the late 1990s when the results of the first dedicated...
“… 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...
It is stated by the researches that in public men suffer from the violence more often, but women more often suffer from violence in the family. Generally domestic violence in...
Safety from crime is an important part of the overall safe society definition. In Lithuania the term "feeling of safety" is more common than the term "fear of crime". It combines...