Jane Jacobs’s scientific contributions

... CPTED is an interdisciplinary intervention-drawing from urban planning, criminal justice, and public health-that improves physical conditions in neighborhoods to deter crime and violence. Early CPTED strategies focused on natural surveillance, which included improving sightlines to make activity more observable (Jacobs, 1961) and increasing territoriality by modifying spaces (e.g., installing fences, landscaping) to signal ownership and increase perceived risks of offending (Jeffrey, 1971;Newman 1972Newman , 1996. While considerable overlap exists between other built environment interventions (e.g., vacant property greening) and CPTED, CPTED is differentiated by including a systematic assessment of the built environment and applying a suite of physical strategies to create "defensible space" (Newman, 1972). ...

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Community-engaged crime prevention through environmental design and reductions in violent and firearm crime