ABSTRACT
Case studies of place-based crime prevention applications in commercial land uses are rare, with most being confined to the convenience store studies cited previously, ATM design (NCPC, 1997), pay phone toll fraud (Bichler and Clarke, 1996), shopping bag theft in central markets (Poyner, 1983; Poyner and Webb, 1992), banks (Clarke et al., 1991), and shoplifting (DiLonardo and Clarke, 1996). This is unfortunate since, although commercial land uses in the United States generally comprise no more than 5 per cent of developed urban areas (Goodman and Freund, 1968), they account for a disproportionate amount of criminal activity. They are obvious targets for crime.
