| Title |
A Research on Creating Crime-Safe Environment Through Enforcing the Sense of Community in Urban Residential Area |
| Authors |
Kang Seok-Jin ; Lee Kyung-Hoon |
| Keywords |
Single-detached Unit Area ; Crime-Safe Environment ; Fear of Crime ; Sense of Community |
| Abstract |
The aim of this study is to creat crime-safe environment through enforcing the sense of community, focusing on the relationship among the spatial characteristics, neighborhood relationships and residents' fear of crime urban residential area. In order to fulfil this study, we analysed questionnaire and fields survey results through statistical inferences such as multi-variate statistics.Followings are the results. : 1) In single-detached unit area, fear of crime is negative relationship with the social network fortification through interaction and participation, the attachment and satisfaction of residential area, perceived range of the neighborhood, and the ratio of buildings except for the housings. Especially, analyzing the relationships between the experienced crime victimization rates and the space characteristics, it was revealed that visual accessibility about the surroundings by the interval of night lightings, type of alley and housing layout from the street was important factor on controlling vandalism and vehicles-related crime victimization. These results were verified through correlations and multiple regression analyses. 2) Dead-end alley has a positive or negative effect on the fear of crime according to the width and length of alley, hight of the surrounded buildings and personalization of the areas.Finally, it is found that the sense of community effects on the making of crime-safe environment. which may depend on the social cohesion through social interaction among neighbors and satisfaction with the neighborhood, increasing the surveillance opportunity by the adjustment of environmental characteristics(night lighting interval, alley style, housing layout, etc.) and decreasing non-housing proportion in residential area. |