Safer By Design Coalition |
 Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), pronounced sep-ted, is
based on a theory that the proper design and effective use of the built environment can
lead to a reduction in the incidence and fear of crime and an improvement in the quality
of life. In other words, if a site is laid out well, and used properly, the likelihood of
it being targeted for a crime may be reduced.
In 2001, the VCPA organized a Safer By Design Coalition to help broaden the promotion and
use of CPTED in Virginia. The primary goal of the Safer By Design Coalition is to market
CPTED to design professionals. The members of the VCPA Safer By Design Coalition are shown
at the bottom of this page.
CPTED
Guidelines - Safety By Design: Creating a Safer Environment in Virginia
The VCPA recently published
CPTED Guidelines - Safety by Design: Creating a Safer Environment in Virginia.
The guidelines were developed by the VCPA CPTED Committee. The guidelines are a tool for
planners, design professionals and crime prevention practitioners that shows them how they
can incorporate planning, design and management practices into the community development
process to reduce the opportunity for crimes and terrorism to occur. The illustrated
guidelines address the following types of property uses: single and multi family housing,
neighborhoods, public buildings, schools, offices, commercial, industrial and parking.
Suggestions for lighting, landscaping and security are also provided. The Allstate
Foundation provided a significant grant to the VCPA to support the publication of the
CPTED Guidelines.
The CPTED Guidelines have been endorsed by the Virginia Chapter of the American Planning
Association and the Virginia Main Street Program. The CPTED Guidelines also won the 2005
Public Awareness and Journalism Award from the Virginia Chapter of the American Planning
Association.
The CPTED Guidelines
can be downloaded from the VCPA website in a pdf format. The CPTED Guidelines will also be
made available in a writeable format. More details about obtaining the CPTED Guidelines in
a writeable format will be available soon.Click here for the Virginia Crime Prevention Association’s CPTED
Guidelines.
Policy Guide on Security - American
Planning Association
At it 2005 annual conference, the American Planning Association
adopted a Policy Guide on Security. The new guide
states:
The American Planning Association (APA) and its chapters affirm
that it is imperative for planners, working in concert with first responders and other
allied professionals, to:
- actively address the causes and reduce the threats and the
risks to our security;
- support and facilitate our communities' responses to such
security challenges when they do materialize;
- facilitate the participation of all stakeholders and agencies
to minimize security-related risks while not sacrificing the special physical, design, and
historical character of American cities and communities;
- maintain a balance between security and personal freedom that
enhances the quality of life.
Planning for security, like planning in general, should be comprehensive. The
optimal approach would cover the spectrum of potential events from natural disasters, to
catastrophic events like 9/11, to events like the 1999 incident at Columbine, and to
recurring events such as serious crime. The planning movement, advocating the creation of
safe, defensible spaces, is a natural link to planning for the mitigation of terrorist
threats.
The full text of the Guide on Security Planning and background information can be found at
http://www.planning.org/policyguides/security.htm
pdf vesrion of the Policy Guide on Planning http://www.planning.org/policyguides/pdf/security.pdf
New Zealand CPTED Design Guidelines http://www.justice.govt.nz/cpu/publications/index.html
Crime prevention takes many forms and New Zealand's local authorities approach
crime prevention in different ways and with different emphasis. One of these approaches is
Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED). CPTED provides a framework for
incorporating crime prevention within quality urban designs by focusing on reducing the
opportunity to commit crime, therefore lessening the motivation to offend.
While many local authorities are already using CPTED concepts
in their work, the National Guidelines for CPTED in New Zealand now provides all local
authorities with an opportunity to introduce these concepts in ways that are appropriate
to the New Zealand context. This document introduces seven qualities of safer places
(qualities that will improve the urban environment while reducing crime and the fear of
crime) it establishes the benefits of CPTED and it suggests possible organisations to
involve and their roles. The Ministry of Justice hopes those involved will
find the National Guidelines helpful in achieving safer places that all residents and
visitors enjoy.
Secured
by Design Award - Great Britain http://www.securedbydesign.com/apply/index.asp
Secured by Design achieves a reduction of crime risk by
combining minimum standards of physical security and well-tested principles of natural
surveillance and defensible space. Details of SBD requirements may be found on our Design
Guides page. It is essential that consultation takes place at the earliest opportunity,
preferably at the design stage and before planning permission is sought.
Applications for a Secured by Design Award or other designing-out-crime advice on
building developments should be made to the Police Architectural Liaison Officer (ALO),
sometimes called a Crime Prevention Design Advisor, for the area where the premises are to
be built. The ALO will require copies of plans and schedules of security specifications.
Points of contact for each area are available through our UK Police pages. If you have
problems contacting the police force concerned please call ACPO CPI.
To apply for a site or development award please fill in the form below and forward
it to your local ALO
contact.
Commercial
Application Form
Residential
Application Form
Less Crime through Design - The RSA Student Design
Awards (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce)
The RSA in conjunction with the Home Office has introduced a new category 'Less
Crime through Design' into the Student Design Awards (SDA). Students have been encouraged
to design with potential crime as a dominant issue. As well as a specific award, students
entering other SDA projects were invited to submit designs that also attempted to design
out crime.
CPTED Resources
Safer By Design: Creating
a Safer Environment in Virginia (pdf) VCPA CPTED
Committee CPTED brochure
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design in Virginia (pdf) Virginia Review - May/June 2004
Introduce
CPTED to Your Downtown (pdf) Virginia
Main Street Monitor - March 2003
Trees and Crime: Landscapes in Crime
Prevention (website) Joe Murray,
Aborist, Blue Ridge Community College
A Day in Your Life with CPTED (pdf) Henrico
Division of Police Crime Prevention Unit
Traffic Calming (website) Virginia
Department of Transportation
Traffic Calming Guide for Local Residential Streets (pdf) Virginia Department of Transportation
The CPTED Page - Annotated
Bibliography www.thecptedpage.wsu.edu/Resources.html
CPTED Guidelines - Plans
VCPA CPTED Guidelines: Safety
By Design - Creating a Safer Environment in Virginia (pdf)
Virginia Beach CPTED Design Guidelines: Virginia Beach, VA (pdf)
Florida Safe School Design Guidelines: http://www.fccdr.usf.edu/Projects/safeschool/safesc/intro.htm
National Capital Urban Design and Security Plan: http://www.ncpc.gov/publications_press/udsp/Final
UDSP.pdf
Policy Guide on Planning - American Planning Association: http://www.planning.org/policyguides/pdf/security.pdf
New Zealand CPTED Design Guidelines: http://www.justice.govt.nz/cpu/publications/index.html
Clean,
Well-Lighted Places - Ernest Hemingway
The CPTED training provided by the VCPA
describes clean, well-lighted places as locations that attract positive social behavior
while dirty, poorly lit places attract criminal activity. This concept has been promoted
by Tim Crowe one of the leading international authorities on CPTED. The phrase clean,
well-lighted place was drawn from a 1926 short story by Ernest Hemingway. The Hemingway
short story can be read at the following link.http://www.cis.vt.edu/modernworld/d/hemingway.html#4
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