Safe City-Crime Prevention By Environmental Design

According to the literature review, the research model and variables were built. They are a sense of fear of crime, personal characteristics, the cognition of the features of physical environment, and the sense of community. The survey data was collected by using structured questionnaire.

The effective total are 661. The data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, and correlation to examine the research hypothesis. The conclusions were as follow： 1.The sense of fear of crime of enclosed-type community is less than that of sub-opened type and opened type. 2.The cognition which effects the sense of fear of crime in the three types of communities had significant difference.

The cognition of the features of physical environment such as access, visual, identifiability, mixture land-use, territoriality, incivilities effects the sense of crime, especially the features of identity and incivilities are the most relative to the sense of fear of crime. 3.Residents\' personal characteristics such as age, education, occupation, marriage, living condition, and experiences of being attacked can effect the sense of fear of crime.

The psychological safety and cognition of society and community can also effect the sense of crime. 4.The higher the sense of community, the less fear of crime. 5.The hot spots are distributed around the edge of residential community and on the border of the communities.