Neighbourhood Regeneration
Definition
Physical, economic, and social improvement of deprived or high-crime areas, including housing renovation, public space design, employment schemes, and community organisation, as a means of reducing crime concentration.
- Field
- Social crime prevention
- Components
- Housing renovation, public space design, employment schemes
- Target
- Deprived or high-crime areas
- Mechanism
- Reduces crime concentration
Common questions
Does neighbourhood regeneration reduce crime directly?+
Indirectly. It works by addressing conditions linked to offending, such as poverty, physical disorder, and weak social ties, rather than through policing or enforcement.
What is a common risk with regeneration schemes for crime?+
Displacement: improving one area's conditions can sometimes push offending into adjacent, non-regenerated neighbourhoods instead of reducing it overall.
Related terms
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- Developmental Crime Prevention
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- Displacement
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- Primary, Secondary, Tertiary Prevention
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- Social Crime Prevention
- Strategies that target the developmental, social, and environmental conditions that produce offending, rather than the immediate situational opportunity. Operates upstream of any...