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Smart Cities and Security – A Preventive Approach Pedro Miguel FREITAS a, b, 1 , Laura NUNES c , Feliz GOUVEIA d , Maria GUERREIRO e and Ana SANI f a Faculdade de Direito, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal b Algoritmi Center, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal c,d,e,f Universidade Fernando Pessoa, Portugal Abstract. According to the International CPTED Association, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) is defined as a multi-disciplinary approach to deterring criminal behavior through environmental design. CPTED strategies rely upon the ability to influence offender decisions that precede criminal acts by affecting the built social and administrative environment. The web platform described in this paper uses information about the built and natural environment, geolocated in a map, to produce valuable information to statistical analysis and decision making. The platform will allow authorized users to input information, free text and pictures to classify geographical spots and to create different kinds of outputs. Due to the nature of the data stored, citizens, policy makers, and other stakeholders would need a clear ethical and legal framework to produce and make use of the data and of CPTED itself. This paper also discusses some of the legal issues that may arise. Keywords. Crime Prevention, Smart cities, CPTED, Legal issues 1. Introduction According to the International CPTED Association, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) is defined as a multi-disciplinary approach to deterring criminal behavior through environmental design. CPTED strategies rely upon the ability to influence offender decisions that precede criminal acts by affecting the built, social and administrative environment [4][6][7]. The web platform described in this paper uses information about the built and natural environment, geolocated in a map, to produce valuable information to statistical analysis and decision making. Potential users of the web platform are law enforcement officers, criminologists, urban planners, and decision makers. The Violence and Crime Permanent Observatory (OPVC) at University Fernando Pessoa has being doing field research on environmental factors impact on violence and crime, gathering data in the geographical area of several university campuses in Porto. The web platform and a smartphone application will allow on site and on time gathering of data for immediate processing. The organization of this paper is as follows: we review the CPTED principles and how they are used in our project; then we briefly describe the functionality of a web application to be integrated in a smart city 1 Corresponding Author: Pedro Miguel Freitas, Faculdade de Direito, Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Rua de Diogo Botelho 1327, 4169-005 Porto, Portugal; E-mail: pfreitas@porto.ucp.pt Intelligent Environments 2019 A. Muñoz et al. (Eds.) © 2019 The authors and IOS Press. This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). doi:10.3233/AISE190045 216