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Crime Prevention And The Perception Of Safety In Campus Design, Mary Frances Fernandez
Crime Prevention And The Perception Of Safety In Campus Design, Mary Frances Fernandez
LSU Master's Theses
The objectives of this research are to demonstrate the process of applying perception of safety in a campus environment to actual crimes and to use the results to better implement safety improvements within the campus landscape. The focus of the research is the outdoor environment on a college campus. The Louisiana State University campus was selected as a case study. The survey was developed and tested to better understand how people perceive their surroundings and to incorporate the findings of perception of safety to improve design and planning decisions for the LSU campus. The criteria for a safe design was …