Topic 5- Crime Prevention

Question 1

Newsman’s theory related to….:

Answer 1

Features of neighbourhoods and how they prevent crime

Question 2

5 factors of defensible space by Newman:

Answer 2

Territoriality
Natural surveillance 
Image
Safe adjoining safe areas
Milieu

Question 3

Define territoriality:

Answer 3

When one’s home feels sacred to them

Question 4

Define natural surveillance:

Answer 4

Neighbourhoods ability to see
Clearing obstruction (bushes)

Question 5

Define image:

Answer 5

Do the physical characteristics of a neighbourhood make it feel secure?

Question 6

Define safe adjoining areas:

Answer 6

If areas are adjoining- more likely that residents can see more and then feel safer

Question 7

Define milieu:

Answer 7

Other aspects of neighbourhoods such and policing and busy commercial areas- do they affect crime?

Question 8

Situation crime prevention

Answer 8

Lighting
Benches
Security
Alarms

Question 9

Alley-way gating in Liverpool:

Answer 9

Alleyways- dim lighting and lack of visibility for local residents
Alleyway gates allow only residents to have access

Negative: needs approval, costly and resists may lose keys so not practical?

Bowers- stated that alleyway gating in Liverpool reduced crime by 37%

Question 10

Biting back in Huddersfield:

Answer 10

Programme introduced by officers in late 1990s
Ppl getting burgled again and again- bad sense of community- people moving away
Support for victims

First time- letter

Second-police watch visits and visit from crime prevention officers

Third- installation of alarms and cameras and increased police watch visits

Burglary rate fell to 30%