Defensible Space Undefended - Social Factors in Crime Control Through Environmental Design

• NCJ Number: 81743
• Journal: Urban Affairs Quarterly Volume: 16 Issue: 4 Dated: (June 1981) Pages: 397-422
• Author(s): S E Merry
• Date Published: 1981
• Length: 26 pages
• Grant Number(s): 1 F31 MH05088-01
• Sponsoring Agency: US Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This article investigates the conditions under which residents of an American inner-city housing project act and fail to act to defend both architecturally defensible and undefensible spaces.

Abstract

Because of the fragmented social fabric, even architecturally defensible spaces here are undefended. (Author abstract)