These discussions encompass crime prevention through environmental design, community crime prevention planning, police roles in crime prevention, and the topic of this paper, security code implementation. This final topic encompasses the advantages of establishing minimum security standards, increasing citizen awareness of security, and legitimizing crime prevention as a responsibility of the community. This paper will discuss the typology of building security codes and the processes of implementation and compliance. The evaluation of a code's effectiveness will be discussed, and sources of resistance to code implementation outlined. Finally recommendations are made for successful adoption of security codes in a community. (Publisher's abstract)