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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 CatĂłlica 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 CatĂłlica Portuguesa.
Rua de Diogo Botelho 1327, 4169-005 Porto, Portugal; E-mail: pfreitas@porto.ucp.pt
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This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms
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doi:10.3233/AISE190045
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Intelligent Environments 2019
Workshop Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
- Title
- Intelligent Environments 2019
- Subtitle
- Workshop Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
- Authors
- Andrés Muñoz
- Sofia Ouhbi
- Wolfgang Minker
- Loubna Echabbi
- Miguel Navarro-CĂa
- Publisher
- IOS Press BV
- Date
- 2019
- Language
- German
- License
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-1-61499-983-6
- Size
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Pages
- 416
- Category
- Tagungsbände