ABSTRACT
High crime areas are characterised by high population churn. People about to move home are more victimised, though the causal direction of association has not been established. The dynamics of the relationship between crime and the decision to move home has been little studied. Insofar as crime precipitates residential mobility, a powerful long-term reason is provided for crime-reductive design. At the same time, neighbourhoods with high residential turnover may present challenging contexts for the implementation of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) and Situational Crime Prevention (SCP) interventions. The chapter will use data from the New Deal for Communities Programme, an area-based regeneration initiative which operated in the UK between 1998 and 2008, to clarify the role of crime in the decision to move home. The chapter highlights the importance of crime-reductive design and some of the challenges to CPTED presented by neighbourhood context. The chapter additionally makes some suggestions for the development of CPTED theory and practice.
