Gerontological perspectives on crime and nuisance: The elderly critically evaluate housing designs in the British City

Journal of Aging and Social Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 63-83

  Cozens, Paul ^a   Hillier, David ^a   Prescott, Gwyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crime; Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED); Defensible Space; Housing design; Nuisance; Perceptions; The British city; The elderly

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CRIME; DEMOGRAPHY; FEAR; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; CRIME; DEMOGRAPHY; FEAR; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GREAT BRITAIN; HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY; HUMANS; URBAN POPULATION;

CRIME; DESIGN; ELDERLY CARE; HOUSING POLICY; PERCEPTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 0036981323     PISSN: 08959420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J031v14n02_04     Document Type: Article

References (70)

1. Allatt, P. (1984). Fear of crime: The effect of improved residential security on a difficult to let estate. The Howard Journal, 23, 170-182.
2. Belyea, M. J., & Zingraff, M.T. (1988). Fear of crime and residential location. Rural Sociology, 53, 473-486.
3. Braungart, H. M., Hoyet, W. J., & Braungart, R. G. (1979). Fear of crime and the elderly. In Goldstein, A., Hoyer, W., and Monti, P. (Eds), Police and the Elderly, 15-29. Pergamon Press.
4. Brillon, Y. (1987). Victimization and Fear of Crime Among the Elderly. Toronto: Butterworths.
5. Carvel, J. (2001). Crime is the key issue for older people, says poll. Guardian. Wednesday, April 25, p. 11.
6. Clarke, R. V. G. (1997). Situational Crime Prevention: Successful Case Studies (2nd Edition). Albany: Harrow and Heston.
7. Clarke, R. V. G., & Mayhew, P. (1980). Designing Out Crime. London: HMSO.
8. Clemente, F., & Kleiman, M. B. (1976). Fear of crime amongst the aged. Gerontology. 16, 207-210.
9. Coleman, A. (1985). Utopia on Trial-Vision and Reality in Planned Housing. Hilary Shipman Ltd.
10. Conklin, J. (1971). Dimensions of community response to the crime problem. Social Problems, 18, 374-384.
11. Cozens, P. M., Hillier, D., & Prescott, G. (2001). Crime and the design of residential property: Exploring the perceptions of planning professionals, burglars and other users. Property Management, 19(4), 222-248. (Paper 2 of 2).
12. Crowe, T. D. (2000). Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design: Applications of Architectural Design and Space Management Concepts. (2nd Edition). Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.
13. Crown Copyright. (2000). Crime reduction: Personal safety. (http://crimereduction.gov .uk/personalsafety2.htm).
14. Dalley, G. (2000). Long-term care in the United Kingdom: Community or institutional care? Individual, family, or state responsibility. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 12(1), 1-5.
15. De Savornin Lohman, P. M., & Van Soomeren, P. (1986). Ruimtelijke Planning en Criminaliteit. Den Haag: Rijks Planologische Dienst.
16. Duncan, S. J. (1981). Elderly persons: Vulnerability and involvement in crime. Sydney University Institute of Criminology Proceedings, Vol. 47, 35-50.
17. Ferraro, K. F., & La Grange, R. L. (1987). The measurement of fear of crime. Sociological Inquiry, 57, 70-101.
18. Fischer, C. S. (1981). The private and public worlds of city life. American Sociological Review, 46, 306-316.
19. Global Movement for Active Ageing. (2001). Why is Ageing Important? (www.who.int/ ageing/globalvement/background.html).
20. Gottredson, M. (1984). Victims of Crime: The Dimensions of Risk (Home Office Research Study, No.81). London: HMSO.
21. Grabosky, P. N. (1989). Victims of Violence. Canberra: American Institute of Criminology.
22. Hale, C. (1996). Fear of crime: A review of the literature. The International Review of Victimology, 4, 79-150.
23. Ham-Rowbottom, K. A., Gifford, R., & Shaw, K. T. (1999). Defensible space theory and the police: Assessing the vulnerability of residences to burglary. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 19, 117-129.
24. Harries, K. (2000). Filters, fears, and photos. speculations and explorations in the geography of crime. In Analyzing Crime Patterns. Frontiers of Practice. Goldsmith, V., McGuire, P. G., Mollenkopf, J. H., and Ross, T. A. (Eds.). California: Sage Publications.
25. Hough, M. (1995). Anxiety About Crime; Findings from the 1994 British Crime Survey, Home Office Research Study No. 147. London: HMSO.
26. Hough, M., & Mayhew, P. (1985). Taking Account of Crime: Key Findings from the British Crime Survey. London: HMSO.
27. Hubbard, P. (1996). Conflicting interpretations of architecture: An empirical investigation. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 16, 75-92.
28. Jacobs, J. (1961). The Death and Life of Great American Cities. London: Jonathon Cape.
29. James, M. (1992). The elderly as victims of crime, abuse and neglect. Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, No. 37. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
30. James, M., & Graycar, A. (2000). Preventing Crime Against Older Australians. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology.
31. Kershaw, C., Budd, T., Kinshott, G., Mattinson, J., Mayhew, P., & Myhill, A. (2000). The 2000 British Crime Survey. London: Home Office.
32. Kinsey, R. (1984). Merseyside Crime Survey: First Report. Merseyside County Council.
33. Koskela, H., & Pain, P. (2000). Revisiting fear and place: Women's fear of attack and the built environment. Geoforum, 31, 269-280.
34. Kraut, D. T. (1999). Hanging out the no vacancy sign: Eliminating the blight of vacant buildings from urban areas. New York University Law Review, 74, 1139-1177.
35. Lawson, M., Mahemow, L., Yaffe, S., & Feldman, S. (1976). Psychological Aspects of Crime and Fear of Crime. In Goldsmith, J. and Goldsmith, S. (Eds.), Crime and the Elderly. Lexington, Massachusetts.
36. Lewis, D. A., & Salem, G. (1986). Fear of Crime; Incivility and the production of a social problem. New Brunswick: Transactions.
37. Mawby, R. I. (1999). Providing a secure home for older residents: Evaluation of an initiative in Plymouth. The Howard Journal, 38(3), 313-327.
38. Maxfield, M. G. (1984). Fear of Crime in England and Wales. Home Office Research Study No.78. London: HMSO.
39. McGahan, P. (1984). Police Imagery of the Urban Environment. Canadian Police College Journal, 8(2), 107-153.
40. Miethe, T., & Lee, G. R. (1984). Fear of crime among older people: A reassessment of the predictive power of crime-related factors. The Sociological Quarterly, 25, 397-415.
41. Mirrlees-Black, C., & Maung, A. N. (1994). Fear of Crime: Findings from the 1992 British Crime Survey (Home Office Research and Statistics Department, Research Findings No. 9) London: Home Office.
42. Mirrlees-Black, C., Budd, T., Partridge, S., & Mayhew, P. (1998). The 1998 British Crime Survey. London: HMSO.
43. Nair, G., Ditton, J., & Phillips, S. (1993). Environmental improvements and the fear of crime. British Journal of Criminology, 33(4), 555-561.
44. Nasar, J. L. (1979). The evaluative image of a city. In Environmental Design; Research Theory and Application. In Seidel, A. and Danford, S. (Eds.). New York: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association.
45. Nasar, J. L. (1982). A model relating visual attributes in the residential environment to fear of crime. Journal of Environmental Systems, 11(3), 247-255.
46. Newman, O. (1973). Defensible Space, People and Design in the Violent City. London: Architectural Press.
47. Norman, D. (2001). Top security at Colwyn Bay. Welsh Homes, Western Mail. 24 March, 2.
48. Normoyle, J. B., & Foley, J. M. (1988). The defensible space model of fear and elderly public housing residents. Environment and Behavior, 20(1), 50-74.
49. Pain, R., Williams, S., & Hudson, B. (2000). Auditing fear of crime on North Tyneside: A qualitative approach. The British Criminology Conference: Selected Proceedings. Volume 3., July 1999.
50. Painter, K. A. (1988). Lighting and Crime Prevention: The Edmonton Project, Middlesex Polytechnic.
51. Painter, K.A. (1996). Placing criminals under the spotlight. The Urban Street Environment, January, 11-14.
52. Painter, K. A., & Farrington, D. P. (2001). Evaluating situational crime prevention using young people's survey. British Journal of Criminology, 41, 266-284.
53. Population Trends. (1999). Population Trends. London: The Stationery Office.
54. Poyner, B. (1986). Model for action. In Heal, K. and Laycock, G. (Eds.), Situational Crime Prevention-From Theory into Practice. London: HMSO.
55. Purcell, A. T., & Nasar, J. L. (1992). Experiencing other people's houses: A model of similarities and differences in environmental experience. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 12, 199-212.
56. Rock, P. (1988). Crime reduction initiatives on problem estates. In Communities and Crime Reduction. Hope, T. and Shaw, M. (Eds.), Home Office Planning Unit. London: HMSO Crown Copyright.
57. Rohe, W. M., & Burby, R. J. (1998). Fear of crime in public housing. Environment and Behavior, 20 (6), 700-720.
58. Sarkissian, W., & Walsh, K. (Eds.). (1994). The Community Participation in Practice: Casebook. Murdoch University, Institute for Science and Technology Policy. Perth, Australia.
59. Saville, G. (1995). Crime Problems, Community Solutions: Environmental Criminology as a Developing Prevention Strategy. Vancouver, British Columbia: AAG Publications.
60. Scott, M. J., & Canter, D. V. (1997). Picture or place? A multiple sorting study of landscape. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 17, 263-281.
61. Shaplan, J., & Vagg, J. (1985). Social Control and Policing in Rural and Urban Area. University of Oxford.
62. Skogan, M., & Maxfield, M. (1980). Reactions to Crime Project. Evanston, IL: Center for Urban Affairs, Northwestern University.
63. Skogan, M., & Maxfield, M. (1981). Coping With Crime. Sage.
64. Smith, S. J. (1987). Fear of Crime: Beyond a geography of deviance. Progress in Human Geography, 11, 1-23.
65. Taylor, R. B., Gottfredson, S. D., & Brower, S. (1980). The defensibility of defensible space: A critical review and a synthetic framework for future research. In Understanding Crime. Hirschi, T. and Gottfredson, M. (Eds.), 53-71. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.
66. Taylor, R. B., Shumaker, S. A., & Gottfredson, S.D. (1985). Neighborhood-level links between physical features and local sentiments: Deterioration, fear of crime and confidence. Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, 2, 261-275.
67. Tijerino, R. (1998). Civil spaces: A critical perspective of defensible space. Journal of Architectural Planning Research, 15, Part 4, 321-337.
68. Vrij, A., & Winkel, W. (1991). Characteristics of the built environment and fear of crime: A research note on interventions in unsafe locations. Deviant Behavior, 12, 203-215.
69. Wilkes, S. (2001). The Crime Reduction Programme-Tackling Domestic Burglary. Presentation to the Association of Chief Police Officers Annual Conference. Blackpool Hilton Hotel. May 1-4.
70. Wilson, J. Q., & Kelling, G. L. (1982). The police and neighbourhood safety. Broken Windows. The Atlantic Monthly, 3, 29-38.