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TARGET HARDENING [4 records]

Record 1 2016-07-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Gov. Provincial Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Security
OBS

The main objective of the Block Watch Society of BC is to partner with communities to build safer neighborhoods by encouraging residents to take a proactive approach to crime prevention and safety. Through education on target hardening, property marking and reporting suspicious activity Block Watch provides a means for the community to take responsibility for its own safety by reducing the opportunity for crime.

OBS

Mission: Working together, building safer neighborhoods throughout British Columbia.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités provinciaux non gouv. canadiens
  • Sécurité

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-06-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Criminology
  • Security
  • Areal Planning (Urban Studies)
CONT

Crime prevention through environmental design(CPTED) — An approach to planning and development that reduces opportunities for crime by applying design principles that make it difficult for crimes to be committed. Examples include increasing surveillance to maximize the ability to spot suspicious individuals, ensuring that the buildings in the area are clean and free of graffiti, target hardening by increasing physical barriers and security devices, and by increasing the territoriality by fostering the resident's control over the neighbourhood...

OBS

Expression used to refer to the application of both community and justice-system based defensive approaches to relatively large scale settings such as neighbourhoods, commercial corridors, schools, and public transportation systems with identifiable spatial boundaries.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Criminologie
  • Sécurité
  • Aménagement du territoire
CONT

La PCAM est une approche à la planification et au développement qui diminue les [chances] qu'un crime se produise. En voici quelques exemples : augmenter la surveillance pour maximiser la capacité de repérer les personnes suspectes; s'assurer que les édifices du secteur sont propres, bien entretenus et sans graffiti; renforcer les infrastructures et restreindre l'accès, en installant des barrières physiques et des systèmes de sécurité; améliorer la territorialité, en favorisant chez les habitants la prise de contrôle de leur propre voisinage [...]

OBS

Application des approches défensives tant communautaires qu'officielles à des espaces relativement vastes comme des quartiers, des zones commerciales et des écoles, ainsi qu'aux systèmes de transport public.

Spanish

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Record 3 1994-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Criminology
DEF

A crime prevention method which aims to increase the physical security of crime targets to make the offender’s job more difficult. It is based on the premise that offenders will be deterred by less vulnerable targets.

CONT

Target-hardening measures recommended for burglary include alarms and better locks; for shoplifting, detector tags on goods for sale; for vandalism, unbreakable and paint-resistant materials; the protection of vulnerable objects by grilles or meshes; the use of fibreglass instead of upholstery on train and bus seats.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Criminologie
DEF

Méthode de prévention du crime par l'aménagement du milieu. Il s'agit essentiellement de renforcer la sécurité matérielle des objets convoités afin de compliquer la tâche au délinquant. Cette méthode part du principe qu'une cible moins invitante aura un effet de dissuasion.

CONT

Parmi les mesures de renforcement de la cible recommandées, mentionnons les systèmes d'alarme et de meilleures serrures, contre le cambriolage; les étiquettes spéciales sur la marchandise à vendre, contre le vol à l'étalage; les matériaux incassables ou résistants à la peinture, contre le vandalisme; la protection des objets vulnérables par des grilles ou des treillis; l'utilisation de fibre de verre au lieu de tissus et de rembourrage pour les sièges de trains et d'autobus.

Spanish

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Record 4 1985-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weapon Systems
  • Space Weapons

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'armes
  • Armes orbitales

Spanish

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