Crime

Crime

Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority (via mechanisms such as legal systems) can ultimately prescribe a conviction.

Types of crime

A uniformly accepted categorisation of crime does not exist; rather, each country uses its own classification and often more than one.

In the context of urban planning, not all types of crimes are equally relevant, due to:

• the extent to which they are infuenceable by means of urban design;
• the extent to which they form a risk, both in terms of likelihood of occurence and impact;

Influenceability of crime by urban design

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Occurence of crime

Not every type of crime occurs equally frequent. The crime statistics of England and Wales of the year 2010-2011 present the following ratios in recorded crime types:

Impact of crime

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Security issues

The types of crime that are deemed relevant enough for the urban planning process to be explicitly elaborated in this Securipedia, are called Security Issues. These issues are:

• Break and enter (burglary)
• Ram-raiding
• Pickpocketing
• Robbery
• Vehicle theft
• Physical assault
• Sexual assault
• Vandalism
• Destruction by riots
• Destruction of property by fanatics (terrorists)
• Graffiti
• Mass killing (terrorists)
• Raid (commercial theft with use of violence)

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