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Planning for Crime Prevention in Japan

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Authors: Hino, Kimihiro; Schneider, Richard H.

Source: Built Environment, Volume 39, Number 1, March 2013, pp. 114-139(26)

Publisher: Alexandrine Press

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.39.1.114

With historically low crime rates, Japan is one of the safest countries in the world especially when compared to European, North American, Caribbean and African nations. This paper documents changes made over the last decade to prevent and mitigate crime and fear of crime in response to a past sharp rise in crime rates. We identify and briefly discuss a number of crime prevention policy and practice approaches from local to national policy levels, and from the individual building scales to community-wide scales. We focus particularly on Bouhan Machi-Zukuri, which is roughly translated as 'community-based planning for community safety', as realized through neighbourhood safety mapping. This is a unique public/private action planning approach (Hino, 2011) that promises to help knit together social fabrics and encourage community action and, potentially, could be emulated by other communities around the world.

Document Type: Research Article

Publication date: 01 March 2013

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  • Built Environment is published quarterly in March, June, September and December. With an emphasis on crossing disciplinary boundaries and providing global perspective, each issue focuses on a single subject of contemporary interest to practitioners, academics and students working in a wide range of disciplines. Issues are guest-edited by established international experts who not only commission contributions, but also oversee the peer-reviewing process in collaboration with the Editors.

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    The journal is abstracted in Geo Abstracts, Sage Urban Studies Abstracts, and Journal of Planning Literature, and is indexed in the Avery Index to Architectural Publications.

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