ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the criminal community has successfully altered their environment to obstruct police and the law-abiding community efforts by using offensible space strategies. It is not only a matter for crime. This is a matter of new importance considering the emerging threat of terrorism. If criminals employ Offensible Space to their advantage, so, too, can terrorists. This chapter sets the stage for the chapters that follow regarding terror risk assessments around critical infrastructures and the emerging role of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) in the new threat environment.
