The purpose of this exploratory study is to empirically test the assumptions of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) on the crime of burglary. Prior burglary studies suggest that the physical environment does impact on crime rates. This work examines commercial as well as residential burglary, using both quantitative and qualitative research methods. It then takes the research one step further by dividing residential burglaries into the categories of single-family, duplex, and multifamily units. / Thirty-four independent variables were collected and empirically tested using logistic regression. The resulting data was also checked for interactions among the independent variables, something no other study has done. / A major finding of this research is that mixed land-use contributes to the risk of burglary. This finding was found in all four of the equations. Accessibility was also discovered to be significant in several models. Accessibility, as a category, examined pedestrian and automobile traffic, types of front doors, and whether the windows were obstructed. The last category supported prior studies indicating that obstructed windows increase the risk of crime. Results of this research failed to find that automobile traffic played any part in predicting crime. / Based on the findings of this work, several policy implications are presented, and several avenues of future research are discussed. The original purpose of this study was to test CPTED, and it is this author's contention that the research supports the theory. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04, Section: A, page: 1536. / Major Professor: C. Ray Jeffery. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77411 |
| Contributors | Clontz, Kenneth A., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 203 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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