Reconceptualizing public area surveillance and crime prevention: Security guards, place managers and defensible space

Security Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 299-319

  Welsh, Brandon C ^a   Mudge, Mark E ^b   Farrington, David P ^c  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

defensible space; place managers; public area surveillance; security guards; situational crime prevention; systematic review

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956690414     PISSN: 09551662     EISSN: 17434645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/sj.2008.22     Document Type: Article

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