There have been limited reports on crime prevention policies by local governments in
Japan, which is one of the safest countries in the world. This article reviews crime prevention …

Metod Denna studie bygger på inhämtning av underlag och belägg med fyra olika metoder:
litteraturöversikt, enkätundersökningar, intervjuer och fallstudier. Litteraturöversikt-Inom …

Urban design shapes the built environment and the types of human activities that take place
in it. A safe environment is one that maximizes the use of public places with a mix of users …

Although previous studies have referred to the spatiotemporal patterns of burglaries called
“repeat victimization”(RV) and “near repeat”(NR), only a few have explicitly dealt with …

Social life is a key feature in humans; without it, language, science, and technology would
not have appeared. The inclination to engage with others is also a main source of pleasure …

While surveillance cameras are widely used for crime prevention in living environments, the
interplay between such physical measures and community safety activities remains less …

The relationship between climate change and violent behavior has been well documented
in previous studies. Violence has two dimensions: outward violence (ie, crime) and inward …

In the past 13 years, Japan has been experiencing a boom in volunteering activities aimed
at crime prevention; as close to 3,000,000 Japanese citizens have involved themselves in …

The number of crime prevention volunteer organizations in Japan has continued to increase
and at the end of 2014, there were some 48,000 such organizations with a total of …

The aim of this study was to investigate, in consideration of individual attributes and
neighborhood-level social capital, the association between official crime rates and sense of …