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Research has demonstrated that Secured by Design (SBD) is an effective crime reduction measure, but how long does that crime reductive effect last? This paper re-visits a sample of developments in West Yorkshire, England to establish the extent to which the crime reduction benefits demonstrated over a decade before have been sustained.
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Secured by Design (SBD) is an effective crime reduction measure - this has been demonstrated through analysis of police recorded and self reported crime data. But to what extent is that crime reduction effect sustained? This paper explores a sample of SBD developments over a period of ten years to assess the extent to which the crime reduction benefits have been sustained.
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Research has demonstrated that Secured by Design reduces crime and the fear of crime, but previous evaluations had only explored this over a three year period. This research revisits a sample of developments in West Yorkshire to ascertain the extent to which the crime reduction benefits seen a decade before had been sustained.
Prof Rachel A Armitage
University of Huddersfield
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This page is a summary of: Sustaining the crime reduction impact of designing out crime: Re-evaluating the Secured by Design scheme 10 years on, Security Journal, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1057/sj.2010.6.
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