Residents' crime and safety perceptions in gated and non-gated low middle income communities in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Property crimes in residential areas has become a concerning issue in Malaysia. Environmental design based crime prevention theories such as Defensible Space, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and 2nd generation CPTED recommend to construct gates and fences as target hardening...
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Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design, IIUM
2011
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/23290/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/23290/1/Resident%27s_Crime_experience_and_safety.pdf |
| Summary: | Property crimes in residential areas has become a concerning issue in Malaysia.
Environmental design based crime prevention theories such as Defensible Space,
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and 2nd generation
CPTED recommend to construct gates and fences as target hardening measures in
the residential areas to prevent crimes. However, these concepts have generated
several issues, including the safe environment they offer. Thus, this paper aims at
examining the safety perception of the residents in gated and guarded vis-ii-vis nongated
and guarded communities. Two low middle income housing communities - a
gated and guarded community (GC) and a non-gated and guarded community
(NGC) were chosen for the study. Relationship between residents' crime
experiences and perception of safety were studied in both communities and it was
found that crime rates are higher in the GC than in the NGC and this indicates that
GCs are not safer than NGCs. Based on the findings, the study comes up with
several recommendations in order to enhance safety perceptions of low-middle
income apartment communities in Kuala Lumpur. |
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