AC3.2

Question 1

What does CPTED stand for?

Answer 1

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design.

Question 2

What is the broken windows theory?

Answer 2

crime is attracted to areas that look run down.

Question 3

What is an example of Natural Access Control?

Answer 3

Gated lanes - Moving crime but not stopping crime. Just moving to a less secure area.

Question 4

Environmental Design
What are the two ways that criminologists suggest that our environment can affect crime?

Answer 4

• Influence potential offenders by presenting them with opportunites to commit crime
• Affect peoples ability to exercise control over their surroundings.

Question 5

Environmental Design
What Did Newman state?

Answer 5

Defensible spaces have low crime rates because of 4 elements
- territoriality
- natural surveillance
- a safe image (broken windows theory)
- Protected location (neighbourhood watch & leaving lights on when away).

Question 6

Environmental Design
What is an example of an indefensible space?

Answer 6

closed stairwells result in low level visibility

Question 7

Environmental Design
What are gated lanes and what crimes do they mainly prevent?

Answer 7

a crime prevention method of lockable gates installed to prevent offenders gaining access to alleyways.

street crime, drug crime, burglarys

Question 8

Environmental Design
What are some strengths of Gated Lanes?

Answer 8

• provides a physical barrier
• increases guardianship and surveillance
• indicates the area is well cared for
• broken windows theory
• removes and reduces crime in that area
• target hardening - target is a house or property making it harder to steal property (find my iphone).

Question 9

Environmental Design
What are some weaknesses of gated lanes?

Answer 9

• may be criminals living within gated areas
• restrict access for emergency services
• only displacing crime to another area and not stopping crime/solving the issue

Question 10

Environmental Design
Where were gated lanes introduced

Answer 10

• more than 70 alleygates were installed in cardiff neighbourhoods
• Liverpool and Crewe in 2007/2008

Question 11

What is the Rational Choice Theory?

Answer 11

CPTED sees offenders acting rationally if intruders fear they will be challenged by residents then they will stay away.

Committing crime is a rational choice
With every risk taken, the criminal will have a reward they perceive they’ll get.
If the reward is bigger than the risk, they will probably commit the crime.