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Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Rebuilding crime prevention through environmental design |
Subtitle of host publication | Strengthening the links with crime science |
Editors | Rachel Armitage, Paul Ekblom |
Place of Publication | London |
Publisher | Routledge |
Chapter | 6 |
Pages | 109-130 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Edition | 1st |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781317419150, 9781315687773 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781138919631 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 11 Feb 2019 |
Publication series
Name | Crime Science Series |
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Publisher | Routledge |
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Simulating CPTED : Computational agent-based models of crime and environmental design. / Birks, Daniel; Clare, Joseph.
Rebuilding crime prevention through environmental design : Strengthening the links with crime science. ed. / Rachel Armitage; Paul Ekblom. 1st. ed. London : Routledge, 2019. p. 109-130 (Crime Science Series).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter
TY - CHAP
T1 - Simulating CPTED
T2 - Computational agent-based models of crime and environmental design
AU - Birks, Daniel
AU - Clare, Joseph
PY - 2019/2/11
Y1 - 2019/2/11
N2 - The synthetic society is a recent addition to the social scientist’s toolkit. Computational agent-based models (ABM) allow researchers to create artificial environments and inhabit them with virtual populations of heterogeneous, autonomous decision makers who perceive, reason, and act according to empirical observation and theoretical proposition. Using these models, social scientists are able to explore causal links between individual behavior, environmental context, and aggregate societal outcomes. Importantly, such models provide the means to carry out systematic simulation experiments that explore the potential downstream impacts of manipulations to individual and environmental characteristics in ways that would be ethically or logistically impossible through traditional experimental means. This chapter considers how such computational laboratories might support, extend, and integrate CPTED and the theoretical platform underpinning it– environmental criminology. We begin by providing a brief description of the ABM methodology and discussing the role these models have played in progressing the understanding of complex social systems. Subsequently, several key propositions of environmental criminology are discussed, along with their proposed relationship with core concepts of CPTED. Subsequently, we highlight recent applications of ABM within the field of environmental criminology and discuss the circumstances that have made these advances possible. We conclude by setting out two distinct streams of computational research that seek to support both theoretical and applied CPTED practices.
AB - The synthetic society is a recent addition to the social scientist’s toolkit. Computational agent-based models (ABM) allow researchers to create artificial environments and inhabit them with virtual populations of heterogeneous, autonomous decision makers who perceive, reason, and act according to empirical observation and theoretical proposition. Using these models, social scientists are able to explore causal links between individual behavior, environmental context, and aggregate societal outcomes. Importantly, such models provide the means to carry out systematic simulation experiments that explore the potential downstream impacts of manipulations to individual and environmental characteristics in ways that would be ethically or logistically impossible through traditional experimental means. This chapter considers how such computational laboratories might support, extend, and integrate CPTED and the theoretical platform underpinning it– environmental criminology. We begin by providing a brief description of the ABM methodology and discussing the role these models have played in progressing the understanding of complex social systems. Subsequently, several key propositions of environmental criminology are discussed, along with their proposed relationship with core concepts of CPTED. Subsequently, we highlight recent applications of ABM within the field of environmental criminology and discuss the circumstances that have made these advances possible. We conclude by setting out two distinct streams of computational research that seek to support both theoretical and applied CPTED practices.
KW - Crime prevention
KW - Crime science
KW - Agent-based modelling
U2 - 10.4324/9781315687773-6
DO - 10.4324/9781315687773-6
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781138919631
T3 - Crime Science Series
SP - 109
EP - 130
BT - Rebuilding crime prevention through environmental design
A2 - Armitage, Rachel
A2 - Ekblom, Paul
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -