Less Crime, More Vibrancy, by Design

This chapter explores how Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and the allied approach of Situational Crime Prevention (SCP) relates to an emerging perspective, the ‘Vibrant Secure Function Framework’, for safer and more sociable cities. This is a project-led, exploratory merger of the Security Function Framework pioneered by Ekblom (2012) and the Social-Safer design-led approach championed by Thorpe and Gamman (2013) and the team from the Design Against Crime Research Centre and Socially Responsive Design Unit at University of the Arts London (UAL).

About this book: Crime Prevention through Environmental Design is a collection of approaches to deter criminal behaviour though physically altering the built environment in which communities reside. In recent years, the approach has been criticised for duplicating terminology and for failing to integrate successfully with other approaches. This book brings together leading scholars from around the world to consider the theory, terminology, concepts and methods of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design, draws on international research and develops new interdisciplinary perspectives. It explores how situational crime prevention and environmental criminological theories relate to those of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design and considers how Crime Science can be reformulated to merge different approaches, or at least articulate them better.