What do security cameras provide for society? The influence of cameras in public spaces in Japan on perceived neighborhood cohesion and trust

Takagi, Daisuke; Amemiya, Mamoru; Shimada, Takahito

doi:10.1007/s11292-020-09437-8

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“…Installation of CCTVs, thus, contributed to the improvement of residents’ sense of security, as well as the reduction in the number of crimes. Takagi et al ( 2020 ) found a negative association between residents’ awareness of CCTVs installed by a municipality and their perceived social cohesion in Ichikawa City, which is adjacent to Tokyo 23 Wards. As they argued, the presence of CCTVs might be accepted as a sign of a lack of social networks to exercise collective crime prevention activities.…”

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A review of crime prevention activities in a Japanese local government area since 2008: Beautiful Windows Movement in Adachi Ward

Hino

Chronopoulos

2021

Crime Prev Community Saf

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There have been limited reports on crime prevention policies by local governments in Japan, which is one of the safest countries in the world. This article reviews crime prevention policies in Adachi Ward, which used to have the highest crime rates in Tokyo. The government of Adachi Ward introduced the “Beautiful Windows Movement” (BWM) in 2008. Based on BWM, Adachi Ward implemented various programs and interventions based on two different aspects: the aspect of preventing minor crimes and disorder in partnership with the police referring to the Broken Windows Theory and the aspect of literally making the Ward beautiful in cooperation with citizen volunteers. After 11 years of implementing BWM, the number of recorded crimes in Adachi Ward declined the most in Tokyo and residents’ sense of security improved significantly. This case study highlights the advantage of the duality of BWM to both reduce crimes and improve residents’ sense of security.

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A review of crime prevention activities in a Japanese local government area since 2008: Beautiful Windows Movement in Adachi Ward

Hino

Chronopoulos

2021

Crime Prev Community Saf

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“…In a similar vein, the evolution of Japanese data security has demonstrated that CCTV is subject to very lax data security regulations. Despite the fact that CCTV installations are becoming more and more common in Japan (placed in public, semi-public, and even semi-private spaces such as office cafeteria areas), this issue is still not seen to be a problem and is not adequately regulated [39]. Strict rules and regulatory measures are now both required and desirable since the number of CCTV systems in public locations throughout the world has been increasing exponentially.…”

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Developing a Security Policy for the Use of CCTV in the Northern Border University

Ahmad¹

2023

IJACSA

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The use of closed-circuit television (CCTV) in universities is a challenging task due to global strong opposition to its implementation at education institutions. The ministry of higher education of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has initiated a plan for monitoring educational institutes across the Kingdom. Therefore, this paper proposes a new framework for developing a comprehensive security policy for using CCTV in the Northern Border University, which streamlines the implementation, usage, and securing of the CCTV footage contents. In this regard, a new policy was developed combining the principles of activity theory, international standards, and design science methodology. It considered six key elements from both theoretical and practical perspectives, namely government rules, technical aspects, training, security requirements, users, and legal issues. Based on them, a standard 12-principal policy was developed; to help organizations easily implement and evaluate the developed policy and secure the contents, the principles were classified into three categories: performance, security, and policy management. The findings showed that the implementation of the policy developed in this study not only improved the security measures of the university, but also built trust among the stakeholders due to the high internal security and effective evaluation of the surveillance system.

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Associations of neighborhood built, safety, and social environment with walking to and from school among elementary school-aged children in Chiba, Japan

Hino

Ikeda

Sadahiro

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Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act

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Background Although it is globally known that Japan has high prevalence of active school travel among children, there are few international studies on Japanese children’s school travel. Moreover, only few studies have focused on the differences in their mode of travel between to-school and from-school. This study examined the associations of neighborhood built, safety, and social environments with walking to/from school among elementary school-aged children in Chiba, Japan. Methods We conducted an online survey with 1545 parents of children aged 6–12 years residing in Chiba between 25 and 27 November 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. A neighborhood was defined as the area of a postcode provided by the participants. Each neighborhood environment was assessed based on the built environment (new town designation, walkability, distance to school, population density), social environment (neighborhood cohesion and connection), and safety (CCTVs, a road section for walking alone, safety volunteers). Neighborhood walkability was measured using subscales of the Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale (youth and abbreviated versions) including crime safety and traffic safety. Parents’ perceived influence of COVID-19 on school commuting and after-school activities were also included in the model as covariates. Walking to and from school were separately analyzed using multinomial logistic regressions, where new towns and walkability were computed separately as explanatory variables. Results Four fifths of children walked to and from school daily. Walking to school was positively associated with crime safety, neighborhood connections, and schools sited in new towns. Walking from school had positive associations with traffic safety, neighborhood cohesion, and CCTVs, but negative associations with safety volunteers and after-school activities. The presence of a section for walking alone and perceived influence of COVID-19 had negative associations with walking to and from school. Conclusions Recent social changes such as declining birthrate, decline in public elementary schools, and increasing after-school activities may change parental attitudes toward children’s walking to/from school, and subsequently, their mode of school travel over time. To maintain the high prevalence of walking to/from school in Japan, multidisciplinary approaches involving different stakeholders from education, public health, and urban planning are required to overcome sectionalism and support this behavior in the long term.

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What do security cameras provide for society? The influence of cameras in public spaces in Japan on perceived neighborhood cohesion and trust

Cited by 3 publications

References 30 publications

A review of crime prevention activities in a Japanese local government area since 2008: Beautiful Windows Movement in Adachi Ward

A review of crime prevention activities in a Japanese local government area since 2008: Beautiful Windows Movement in Adachi Ward

Developing a Security Policy for the Use of CCTV in the Northern Border University

Associations of neighborhood built, safety, and social environment with walking to and from school among elementary school-aged children in Chiba, Japan

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