Premises Liability and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

Premises liability cases offer insights into the application of CPTED(Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design):

It is apparent that judges and juries can appreciate the logic of CPTED and decide in specific cases that the way properties are designed can influence criminal behavior.
Design is usually not a singular cause. Invariably, several factors contributed to the crime: not having a security plan, not being aware of what is happening on the property, not having enough guards, or not having guards that are properly recruited and trained. In other words, the crime was driven by a variety of factors, design being one of them.

Corey L. Gordon is a partner in the Mass Tort Department of the national law firm of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi. Since 1973, William Brill, Ph.D., has headed William Brill Associates, Inc., a research and planning firm that provides security planning and analysis services to government agencies and private corporations.

This report was supported in part by grant 91-IJ- CX-KO22 from the National Institute of Justice to the American Institute of Architects.

Findings and conclusions of the research reported here are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.

The National Institute of Justice is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the Office for Victims of Crime.

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