while different elements including social, economic and cultural elements play a vital role in the emergence of behavioral patterns in humans, one cannot ignore the influence of the physical and spatial characteristics of built environment as a back ground for occurrence of anomic behavior on committing crimes. therefore, a series of approaches and theories such as “crime prevention through env...

Currently, we observe an increasing number of terrorist attacks and violent crime, resulting in a noticeable increase nervousness tension society. Not only on the territory Europe, but also throughout world, crime are mainly concentrated near objects that accessible to public, characterized by relatively low level security high concentration people, so-called soft targets. The tendency control ...

crime and the fear of crime are pervasive and endemic concerns in modern society and criminal justice systems are clearly failing to tackle both issues. cpted is an acronym for crime prevention through environmental design which asserts that the proper design and effective use of the built environment can lead to a reduction in the fear and incidence of crime, and an improvement in the quality ...

security is one of the most important human needs. researchers believe that the need for security has a strong and close relationship with the physical characteristics of the environment and people’s satisfaction. to study the relationship between security and environmental (physical and social) satisfaction, ‘’cpted’’ approach and its principals in design and environmental planning and urban l...