21st Century Security and CPTED - 2nd Edition

Name: 21st Century Security and CPTED - 2nd Edition
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The concept of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) has undergone dramatic changes over the last several decades since C. Ray Jeffery coined the term in the early 1970s, and Tim Crowe wrote the first CPTED applications book. The second edition of 21st Century Security and CPTED includes the latest theory, knowledge, and practice of CPTED as it relates to the current security threats facing the modern world: theft, violent crime, terrorism, gang activity, and school and workplace violence.\n\nThis significantly expanded edition includes the latest coverage of proper lighting, building design\u2014both the interior and exterior\u2014physical security barriers, the usage of fencing, bollards, natural surveillance, landscaping, and landscape design. Such design concepts and security elements can be applied to address a wide variety of threats including crime prevention, blast mitigation, and CBRNE threat protection.\n\nAuthored by one of the U.S.\u2019s renowned security.