ABSTRACT
Clarke’s concept of situational crime prevention was borne out of the British Home Office’s crime prevention efforts of the 1960s and 1970s. It is significant in that it extends the boundaries of both defensible space and CPTED beyond the physical environment, to incorporate management and use issues such as space scheduling and communications, elements once ignored by the other theories. Its growing number of advocates have significantly broadened the theoretical bases on which crime prevention planning theory rests and they have raised many important new questions about the nature of crime and its relationship to both spatial and nonspatial variables (Clarke and Mayhew, 1980; Clarke, 1992, 1997; Newman et al., 1997).
