What is it about?
Secured by Design is a UK based police-led award scheme to encourage housing developers to design out crime in the design and build of housing. Evidence shows that it reduces crime, but do these crime reduction benefits last?
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Why is it important?
An evaluation of the long term impact of the Secured by Design scheme on crime reduction. Does it work and do the benefits last?
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An evaluation of the long term impact of the police led Secured by Design scheme on crime reduction. One of the only studies to assess impact over a period of ten years.
Prof Rachel A Armitage
University of Huddersfield
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This page is a summary of: Can Designing Out Crime Interventions Sustain Crime Reduction Benefits?, January 2013, Nature,
DOI: 10.1057/9781137316059_11.
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