CPTED & Crime Prevention: Self-examination When in a dangerous situation one’s body releases adrenaline while your body determines whether it’s time to fight or run, known as fight or flight. This is an innate reaction that our body has to help us survive when it perceives that the situation we are in is considered unsafe. That being said safety is a feeling that almost all of us strive for in life. While most of our ideas about what is actually “safe” will vary from person to person, the majority of people just want to be able to live their life without the fear of themselves or their property being victimized by another person. In response to this desire, many people have dedicated themselves to studying crime and victimization based on
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One of the widely discussed techniques is Crime Prevention through Environmental Design, or CPTED in short. This technique tries through various techniques to make crime harder to commit, and make residents feel safer. This paper is a self-examination on my daily life, and what I do or do not do as it relates to CPTED and general crime prevention. Now the day I examined myself was on a Thursday when I had plans to go to school and run errands later in the day. I start my day like many other students, which is sleeping in as late as possible, getting up and showered and dressed, then rushing off to school so that I can make it to class on time. While it may be rush for me to get to class after I get up, I have always been very personally conscious of my property, …show more content…
Leaving the school, I go to run my errands I make a stop at a gas station to use their ATM. I always choose to go into gas stations when I plan to take money out due to the fact that most have some sort of cameras within their store, the lighting of the store, and the potential for witnesses if I were to get victimized while taking money out. After the ATM I run by the grocery store to grab a few items I need, where I am also not too concerned or have any fear of victimization, as I normally spend as little time there as possible. Just go in grab what I need and leave. This leads to the final part of my day where I arrive back at home, and upon entering; I do the same checks as before I left on the windows and other entrances to the house to ensure that everything is the way I left it. As it starts to get darker outside I turn the lights on the exterior of the house on to provide better Surveillability of the area around my house should I hear any odd noises coming from outside. This is an example of territoriality, which is “ability and desire of legitimate users of an area to lay claim to the area” (Lab 2014). I pay for this property to be able to inhabit this area, and I do not want those that I do not know or have not invited lurking around the vicinity of my property, and if they are I would like to be able to see
One of the widely discussed techniques is Crime Prevention through Environmental Design, or CPTED in short. This technique tries through various techniques to make crime harder to commit, and make residents feel safer. This paper is a self-examination on my daily life, and what I do or do not do as it relates to CPTED and general crime prevention. Now the day I examined myself was on a Thursday when I had plans to go to school and run errands later in the day. I start my day like many other students, which is sleeping in as late as possible, getting up and showered and dressed, then rushing off to school so that I can make it to class on time. While it may be rush for me to get to class after I get up, I have always been very personally conscious of my property, …show more content…
Leaving the school, I go to run my errands I make a stop at a gas station to use their ATM. I always choose to go into gas stations when I plan to take money out due to the fact that most have some sort of cameras within their store, the lighting of the store, and the potential for witnesses if I were to get victimized while taking money out. After the ATM I run by the grocery store to grab a few items I need, where I am also not too concerned or have any fear of victimization, as I normally spend as little time there as possible. Just go in grab what I need and leave. This leads to the final part of my day where I arrive back at home, and upon entering; I do the same checks as before I left on the windows and other entrances to the house to ensure that everything is the way I left it. As it starts to get darker outside I turn the lights on the exterior of the house on to provide better Surveillability of the area around my house should I hear any odd noises coming from outside. This is an example of territoriality, which is “ability and desire of legitimate users of an area to lay claim to the area” (Lab 2014). I pay for this property to be able to inhabit this area, and I do not want those that I do not know or have not invited lurking around the vicinity of my property, and if they are I would like to be able to see