Designing Out Crime

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design and Management

Meeting your objectives

One highly effective strategy for minimising crime is to design or organise the environment in such a way that the opportunity for crime is reduced and potential offenders feel exposed and uncomfortable.

This can be a relatively cheap approach which successfully addresses a particular problem, such as shoplifting or burglary, where other measures have failed.

Perpetuity can help you to apply the principles of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design and Management (CPTEDM), developing practical and tailored solutions to meet your needs.

Ways we can help

We have worked on a broad range of CPTEDM projects, helping clients to assess the weaknesses of the current environment and introduce improvements. Our expertise includes:

Crime Opportunity Profiling of Streets (COPS) – reviewing a geographical area in order to identify built and environmental features that offer opportunities to commit crime or generate fear of crime. This can also, for example, identify features that provide sites for drug taking and dealing
Tackling existing problems – providing advice on how identified weaknesses in external spaces or buildings can be improved in terms both of reducing crime and fear of crime
New developments – auditing plans, physically inspecting sites and reviewing crime data to give clients the best design and management advice for a development

The Perpetuity promise

We have extensive experience of CPTEDM in a variety of contexts, ranging from major development projects such as the Greenwich Peninsular (home of the Millennium Dome) and regeneration projects dealing with home zones and the re-development of ‘new towns’ to assignments aimed at reducing shoplifting or staff theft.

Clients benefit from our team’s excellent academic credentials, bringing rigorous research methodologies to their approach, coupled with extensive practical experience.