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Ability of the Police to Prevent Crime Through Environmental Design Measures

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Lojek K.

Internal Security

2009

vol. 1(1)

9-24

One of the main police objectives involves encouraging and inspiring stakeholders responsible for land development, urban planning, architectural and building processes to create environment favourable for law-abiding citizens and hostile to criminals.For this to happen, it is essential that police officers are adequately prepared to implement the ‘security by design’ concept. This is why the author has attempted to evaluate police officers’ knowledge and beliefs about usefulness and importance of crime prevention through environmental design. Presented in this paper and reflecting on the Polish police managerial staff readiness to implement the concept in question, the survey findings can be used to assess the real ability of police officers to cooperate with stakeholders in building investment processes and to achieve objectives defined in the government strategy of reducing crime and antisocial behaviour. The survey conclusions and opinions can be used as a basis for developing training objectives with a view to eliminating harmful misconceptions about responsibilities of the police and the way how the activities in question should be implemented.

The Role of the Built Environment in Human Life. Selected Issues

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Lamprecht M.

European Spatial Research and Policy

2016

vol. 23

issue 2

65-81

Creation of the built environment and research in this field pose a particularly difficult challenge nowadays. The pace of social and technological change does not allow for evolutionary development of cities and the formation of their land use according to current conditions. Creating spatial solutions that are unmatched in their contexts is becoming not only possible, but very probable (see Alexander, 1964). The development of the built environment involves not only art, technology, history, economics and law, but also philosophy, culture, medicine, psychology, sociology and many other spheres in which human life is manifested. However, only a relatively small number of disciplines such as spatial planning, urban design, urban planning, etc. (ignoring at this point the differences in the meaning of the concepts) in their application layer are meant to create space and bear responsibility for it. Also society has certain requirements of practical nature towards them.This article attempts to outline the nature of research on space urbanised by people and to determine the four main fields of research aimed at the problems of man and the built environment. In the next part, particular attention is paid to issues related to the impact of the built environment on the life of its residents in order to highlight the particular role and complexity of this area of research. This study, acting as a kind of test of the research, cannot be considered representative. Nevertheless, the analysis prompts several reflections on the current and future role of the built environment in the development of our civilisation, as well as further challenges related to it.

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