Residents’ crime experience and safety perceptions in gated and non-gated low middle income communities in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Property crimes in residential areas has become a concerning issue in Malaysia. Environmental design based crime prevention theories such as Defensible Space, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and 2nd generation CPTED recommend to construct gates and fences as target hardening me...

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Main Authors:	Mohit, Mohammad Abdul, Abdulla, Aishath
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	KAED, IIUM 2011
Subjects:	HT51 Human settlements. Communities
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/5436/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/5436/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/5436/1/Resident%27s_Crime_experience_and_safety.pdf

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spelling	iium-54362012-05-16T02:21:07Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/5436/ Residents’ crime experience and safety perceptions in gated and non-gated low middle income communities in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Mohit, Mohammad Abdul Abdulla, Aishath HT51 Human settlements. Communities Property crimes in residential areas has become a concerning issue in Malaysia. Environmental design based crime prevention theories such as Defensible Space, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and 2nd generation CPTED recommend to construct gates and fences as target hardening measures in the residential areas to prevent crimes. However, these concepts have generated several issues, including the safe environment they offer. Thus, this paper aims at examining the safety perception of the residents in gated and guarded vis-â-vis non-gated and guarded communities. Two low middle income housing communities – a gated and guarded community (GC) and a non-gated and guarded community (NGC) were chosen for the study. Relationship between residents’ crime experiences and perception of safety were studied in both communities and it was found that crime rates are higher in the GC than in the NGC and this indicates that GCs are not safer than NGCs. Based on the findings, the study comes up with several recommendations in order to enhance safety perceptions of low-middle income apartment communities in Kuala Lumpur. KAED, IIUM 2011-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/5436/1/Resident%27s_Crime_experience_and_safety.pdf Mohit, Mohammad Abdul and Abdulla, Aishath (2011) Residents’ crime experience and safety perceptions in gated and non-gated low middle income communities in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Journal of Architecture, Planning and Construction Management, 1 (1). pp. 71-97. ISSN 2231-9514 http://www.iium.kaed.edu.my
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description	Property crimes in residential areas has become a concerning issue in Malaysia. Environmental design based crime prevention theories such as Defensible Space, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and 2nd generation CPTED recommend to construct gates and fences as target hardening measures in the residential areas to prevent crimes. However, these concepts have generated several issues, including the safe environment they offer. Thus, this paper aims at examining the safety perception of the residents in gated and guarded vis-â-vis non-gated and guarded communities. Two low middle income housing communities – a gated and guarded community (GC) and a non-gated and guarded community (NGC) were chosen for the study. Relationship between residents’ crime experiences and perception of safety were studied in both communities and it was found that crime rates are higher in the GC than in the NGC and this indicates that GCs are not safer than NGCs. Based on the findings, the study comes up with several recommendations in order to enhance safety perceptions of low-middle income apartment communities in Kuala Lumpur.
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author	Mohit, Mohammad Abdul Abdulla, Aishath
author_facet	Mohit, Mohammad Abdul Abdulla, Aishath
author_sort	Mohit, Mohammad Abdul
title	Residents’ crime experience and safety perceptions in gated and non-gated low middle income communities in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
title_short	Residents’ crime experience and safety perceptions in gated and non-gated low middle income communities in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
title_full	Residents’ crime experience and safety perceptions in gated and non-gated low middle income communities in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
title_fullStr	Residents’ crime experience and safety perceptions in gated and non-gated low middle income communities in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Residents’ crime experience and safety perceptions in gated and non-gated low middle income communities in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
title_sort	residents’ crime experience and safety perceptions in gated and non-gated low middle income communities in kuala lumpur, malaysia
publisher	KAED, IIUM
publishDate	2011
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/5436/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/5436/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/5436/1/Resident%27s_Crime_experience_and_safety.pdf
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Residents’ crime experience and safety perceptions in gated and non-gated low middle income communities in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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