Toward a gendered Second Generation CPTED for preventing woman abuse in rural communities

Title
Toward a gendered Second Generation CPTED for preventing woman abuse in rural communities
Publication Date
2009
Author(s)
DeKeseredy, Walter S
Donnermeyer, Joseph F
Schwartz, Martin D
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1057/sj.2009.3
UNE publication id
une:12812
Abstract
Informed by several studies of woman abuse in rural settings, the main objective of this paper is to discuss how key principles of Second Generation Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) can be applied to help design appropriate community-based prevention strategies for improving the security of women living in rural places from abuse by spouses and partners in both ongoing and terminated relationships. The gender-sensitive version of CPTED recognizes that communities are contested places where differing strands of values, norms, beliefs and tolerance for crime influence the security of rural women. Hence, some forms of social organization or collective efficacy (not social disorganization) may promote and condone rural woman abuse, and other forms serve to prevent and deter it. We propose a Second Generation CPTED framework that considers the utilization of four main strategies, each tailored to directly address feminist concerns and enhance a locality's collective efficacy to increase women's security: community culture; connectivity and pro-feminist masculinity; community threshold and social cohesion.
Link
Citation
Security Journal, 22(3), p. 178-189
ISSN
1743-4645
0955-1662
Start page
178
End page
189

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