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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
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)