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Environmental interventions to reduce fear of crime: systematic review of effectiveness
BACKGROUND: Fear of crime is associated with negative health and wellbeing outcomes, and may mediate some impacts of the built environment on public health. A range of environmental interventions have been hypothesized to reduce the fear of crime. METHODS: This review aimed to synthesize the literat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3660218/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23663285 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-2-30 |
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author | Lorenc, Theo Petticrew, Mark Whitehead, Margaret Neary, David Clayton, Stephen Wright, Kath Thomson, Hilary Cummins, Steven Sowden, Amanda Renton, Adrian |
author_facet | Lorenc, Theo Petticrew, Mark Whitehead, Margaret Neary, David Clayton, Stephen Wright, Kath Thomson, Hilary Cummins, Steven Sowden, Amanda Renton, Adrian |
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description | BACKGROUND: Fear of crime is associated with negative health and wellbeing outcomes, and may mediate some impacts of the built environment on public health. A range of environmental interventions have been hypothesized to reduce the fear of crime. METHODS: This review aimed to synthesize the literature on the effectiveness of interventions in the built environment to reduce the fear of crime. Systematic review methodology, following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidance, was used. Studies of environmental interventions which reported a fear of crime outcome and used any prospective evaluation design (randomized controlled trial (RCT), trial or uncontrolled before-and-after study) were included. Eighteen databases were searched. The Hamilton tool was used to assess quality. A narrative synthesis of findings was undertaken. RESULTS: A total of 47 studies were included, 22 controlled and 25 uncontrolled, with total sample sizes ranging from n = 52 to approximately n = 23,000. Thirty-six studies were conducted in the UK, ten studies in the USA and one study in the Netherlands. The quality of the evidence overall is low. There are some indications that home security improvements and non-crime-related environmental improvements may be effective for some fear of crime outcomes. There is little evidence that the following reduce fear of crime: street lighting improvements, closed-circuit television (CCTV), multi-component environmental crime prevention programs or regeneration programs. CONCLUSIONS: There is some evidence for the effectiveness of specific environmental interventions in reducing some indicators of fear of crime, but more attention to the context and possible confounders is needed in future evaluations of complex social interventions such as these. |
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spelling | pubmed-36602182013-05-22 Environmental interventions to reduce fear of crime: systematic review of effectiveness Lorenc, Theo Petticrew, Mark Whitehead, Margaret Neary, David Clayton, Stephen Wright, Kath Thomson, Hilary Cummins, Steven Sowden, Amanda Renton, Adrian Syst Rev Research BACKGROUND: Fear of crime is associated with negative health and wellbeing outcomes, and may mediate some impacts of the built environment on public health. A range of environmental interventions have been hypothesized to reduce the fear of crime. METHODS: This review aimed to synthesize the literature on the effectiveness of interventions in the built environment to reduce the fear of crime. Systematic review methodology, following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidance, was used. Studies of environmental interventions which reported a fear of crime outcome and used any prospective evaluation design (randomized controlled trial (RCT), trial or uncontrolled before-and-after study) were included. Eighteen databases were searched. The Hamilton tool was used to assess quality. A narrative synthesis of findings was undertaken. RESULTS: A total of 47 studies were included, 22 controlled and 25 uncontrolled, with total sample sizes ranging from n = 52 to approximately n = 23,000. Thirty-six studies were conducted in the UK, ten studies in the USA and one study in the Netherlands. The quality of the evidence overall is low. There are some indications that home security improvements and non-crime-related environmental improvements may be effective for some fear of crime outcomes. There is little evidence that the following reduce fear of crime: street lighting improvements, closed-circuit television (CCTV), multi-component environmental crime prevention programs or regeneration programs. CONCLUSIONS: There is some evidence for the effectiveness of specific environmental interventions in reducing some indicators of fear of crime, but more attention to the context and possible confounders is needed in future evaluations of complex social interventions such as these. BioMed Central 2013-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3660218/ /pubmed/23663285 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-2-30 Text en Copyright © 2013 Lorenc et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Lorenc, Theo Petticrew, Mark Whitehead, Margaret Neary, David Clayton, Stephen Wright, Kath Thomson, Hilary Cummins, Steven Sowden, Amanda Renton, Adrian Environmental interventions to reduce fear of crime: systematic review of effectiveness |
title | Environmental interventions to reduce fear of crime: systematic review of effectiveness |
title_full | Environmental interventions to reduce fear of crime: systematic review of effectiveness |
title_fullStr | Environmental interventions to reduce fear of crime: systematic review of effectiveness |
title_full_unstemmed | Environmental interventions to reduce fear of crime: systematic review of effectiveness |
title_short | Environmental interventions to reduce fear of crime: systematic review of effectiveness |
title_sort | environmental interventions to reduce fear of crime: systematic review of effectiveness |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3660218/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23663285 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-2-30 |
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