Criminology

Criminology

Introduction

American criminology has been unreceptive to genetic interpretations of demeanour and Jeffery's general idea of lawless individual demeanour has relished less achievement than his notion of CPTED. Encompassing a broader set of methods than "defensible space" and expanding after the residential context, CPTED was taken up by the Westinghouse Corporation as the more apt designation for its determined program of study to continue the defensible space notion to school and financial sites. Unfortunately, this study made disappointingly meager outcomes — possibly because "territorial" demeanour is less natural out-of-doors residential backgrounds (Jeffery, 1977: 45) and government and study interest in CPTED ...