The Impact of Physical Features and Environment on Crime in Urban Neighbourhood Areas

Othman, Fazzami; Yusoff, Zaharah Mohd; Salleh, Siti Aekbal

doi:10.21837/pm.v18i14.818

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“…These large numbers of illegal workers have contributed to the crisis of crime, which increased by 50% in 2022 (Berita Nasional Malaysia-Bernama, 2022). Among the crimes involving foreigners, cases include are snatch theft, rape, drug trafficking, murder, smuggling activities, and so on (Othman et al, 2020). The Kuala Lumpur Structure Plan 2020 is intended to address several issues, involving crime at lowcost housing sites in Sabah, brought on because of the low space standards, lack of community facilities, high maintenance costs, and poor quality of construction and materials used in building the houses (Othman et al, 2020).…”

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Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design for Low-Income Residents (B40) in Sabah, Malaysia

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Mohamed Mohan,

Abdol Ghani

et al. 2023

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Safety, facilities, and environment are known to be among the core factors that influence the Quality of Life (QoL) of neighbourhood communities. This study evaluates the low-income residents’ (B40) QoL and seeks to clarify whether People’s Housing Program Environment (PPRE) and Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) can be used collaboratively to improve the QoL of the People’s Housing Project (PPR) communities. This study hypothesizes that implementing CPTED is one of the strategies that may enhance the feeling of safety in residential environments. This study utilised a quantitative cross-sectional design to collect data from 150 PPR residents. The PLS-SEM method reveals that a good PPRE has a significant impact on the residents’ QoL. While the study’s focus is primarily on the expected impact of CPTED on residents’ QoL, the main finding suggests that CPTED can have a large impact on QoL on its own, but not as a mediator between PPRE and QoL. Community relationship, maintenance, natural surveillance, legitimate activity support, and target hardening were the five most important CPTED constructs. However, results did not support territorial reinforcement and natural access control as CPTED facilitators. This information is necessary for developing effective CPTED in housing policies that may improve PPR residential well-being.

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Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design for Low-Income Residents (B40) in Sabah, Malaysia

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Mohamed Mohan,

Abdol Ghani

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“…One of the products of GIS is a mapping crime. Mapping crime, using GIS methods, allows crime analysts to identify crime hot spots, along with other trends and patterns (Othman et al, 2020;Zandbergen and Hart, 2013). With GIS software, it is possible to map crime by type and also be able to indicate which crime is prevalent in a particular area.…”

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Road Accessibility and Safety Analysis in Gated and Non-Gated Housing Communities

Adnan,

Mahadzir,

Hashim

et al. 2023

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The relationship between crime and the built environment has been extensively investigated in the field of urban design and planning. Gated housing area refers to a physical personal area with limited access and is governed by special rules, restricting or controlling access to and outside of the homeowner (via electronic devices or with the safety of workers). Therefore, gated housing communities are assumed to be safer than non-gated housing communities in relation to crime occurrence with limited road point accessibility which is deemed reliable to prevent undesirable property crime. The purpose of this research is to analyse the property crime incidents in gated and non-gated housing communities of Subang Jaya, Selangor with regards to road accessibility points. Three years of crime surveillance data from 2014 to 2016 was obtained from the Royal Malaysian Police Department. Findings indicated that crime incident is less at the gated community as compared to non-gated with the most of the hot spot area are located at the multiple road points access such as Subang Perdana Good Year Court 7 and few USJ, Subang Jaya housing areas and also the residential area which located nearest to the above stated locations as opposed to the gated housing community.

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The Impact of Physical Features and Environment on Crime in Urban Neighbourhood Areas

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Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design for Low-Income Residents (B40) in Sabah, Malaysia

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design for Low-Income Residents (B40) in Sabah, Malaysia

Road Accessibility and Safety Analysis in Gated and Non-Gated Housing Communities

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