Community Design and Crime
The Impact of Housing and the Built Environment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11349331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John M Macdonald (0000-0001-6714-8905, corresponding author), John Macdonald (0000-0002-8609-804X) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 333-383 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Crime and Justice (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-3234 • E-ISSN: 2153-0416 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/681558 |
| OpenAlex | W2287720234 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
| References cited | 99 |
Crime is influenced by the built environment. Broken windows, crime prevention through environmental design, situational crime prevention, and economic theories of the supply of and demand for criminal opportunities offer explanations. Zoning, designs of streets and housing, locations of public transit, and land uses shape the built environment in ways that can increase or reduce crime. Cross-sectional research shows that elements of the built environment are associated with crime rates in particular places. Quasi-experimental studies show that changes in zoning and street configurations, configuration and design of housing, and access to public transit can help manage crime. The mechanisms by which such changes influence crime are not well understood, though shifts in the supply of criminal opportunities most likely play a role. This evidence is promising. It suggests that the built environment can be modified to reduce both crime and reliance on criminal justice sanctions. Place-based experiments that manipulate features of the built environment will provide evidence for policy makers to use in designing cities in ways that reduce crime
Built environment · Business · Civil engineering · Computer security · Crime prevention · Criminal justice · Criminology · Environmental justice · Political science · Public transport · Sanctions · Situational ethics · Sociology · Transport engineering · Zoning · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Engineering · Gambling Behavior and Treatments · Law
Organized Crime and Places
The Future of the Criminology of Place
A Spatial Analysis of Alcohol Outlet Density Type, Abandoned Properties, and Police Calls on Aggravated Assault Rates in a Northeastern U.S. City
Zoning Out Robbery? An Empirical Study in Mexico City
Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design
Does LED Street Lighting Reduce Crime? Evidence from a Staggered Large-Scale Retrofitting Program
Residents, Employees and Visitors
Place-Based Improvements for Public Safety
Community time-activity trajectory modeling based on Markov chain simulation and Dirichlet regression
The geographic concentration of use of force incidents at subway stations mimics the law of crime concentration bandwidths
Property crime and violent crime in Detroit
The effects of vacant lot greening and the impact of land use and business presence on crime
Urban vibrancy and safety in Philadelphia
Gangs and Space
Local Government Spending
Investments in Policing and Community Safety
The Hidden Connections of Urban Crime
Association between property investments and crime on commercial and residential streets
Does neighborhood crime matter? A multi-year survey study on perceptions of race, victimization, and public safety
Using remote sensing data to derive built-form indexes to analyze the geography of residential burglary and street thefts
The routine activities of violent crime places
Population growth and its paradox
Examining the indirect effect of park size on community health via crime risk in Alabama
Vacant Building Removals Associated with Relative Reductions in Violent and Property Crimes in Baltimore, MD 2014–2019
It’s like I’m on the balcony even though I’m not.” Resident perceptions of state-required private outdoor spaces in Michigan’s permanent supportive housing
The Effect of Territorial Stigma on Urban Crime
Investment and crime on residential street segments
Comparing criminal's journey to crime and people's routine travel
Does urban development influence crime? Evidence from Philadelphia’s new zoning regulations
Exploring the impact of 9398 demolitions on neighborhood-level crime in Detroit, Michigan
Shootings and land use
Community-driven disorder reduction
Changes in crime surrounding an urban home renovation and rebuild programme
Forecasting homicide in the red stick
Urban Property Crime
Deciphering Property Crime Through OLS Regression
Communities and crime
Great American City
Urban Fortunes
Hot Spots of Bus Stop Crime
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED)
A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of Health, Safety, and Greening Vacant Urban Space
Bars, Blocks, and Crimes
Permeability and Burglary Risk
Criminality of place
Commercial Density, Residential Concentration, and Crime
Spatial dynamics of alcohol availability, neighborhood structure and violent crime.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function
A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety
Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas (Phoenix Books)
Social Change and Crime Rate Trends
The City that Became SafeNew York’s Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control
Block Crime and Fear
Thinking about crime
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
Robberies in Chicago
Gentrification and Crime
Infectious Burglaries. A Test of the Near Repeat Hypothesis
Assessing the correlation between bus stop densities and residential crime typologies
Target search of burglars
Target search of burglars
Neighborhood Disinvestment, Abandonment, and Crime Dynamics
Crime and Planning
Transit-Related Crime in Suburban Areas
Safety in urban neighborhoods
The effects of building size on personal crime and fear of crime
Crime and Public Transport
Environmental Design, Crime, and Prevention
Situational Crime Prevention
Community Careers in Crime
The Demand and Supply of Criminal Opportunities
School Crime Control and Prevention
Neighborhood Change and Crime in the Modern Metropolis
Do foreclosures cause crime
Low-income housing development and crime
Ecological assessments of community disorder
Neighborhood Physical Conditions and Health
Abandoned buildings
The Impact of Housing Vouchers on Crime in US Cities and Suburbs
The Foreclosure Crisis and Crime
A Multicity Neighborhood Analysis of Foreclosure and Crime
Extremely Poor Neighborhoods and Homicide
Home Foreclosures and Community Crime
Crime and Punishment
Does Regulation of Built‐in Security Reduce Crime? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Neighborhood Changes in Ecology and Violence
Furthering the Integration of Routine Activity and Social Disorganization Theories
Land Use and Violent Crime
The Place of Context
Defensible Space
Street Blocks with more Nonresidential Land Use have more Physical Deterioration
Environment and Crime in the Inner City
Hot Spots of Predatory Crime
Bars, Blocks, and Crimes Revisited
Social Change and Crime Rate Trends
Convenience Stores, Armed Robbery, and Physical Environmental Features
Homicide In and Around Public Housing
Housing Projects and Crime
High Schools and Crime
Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces
| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |