Crime Prevention in Apartment Complexes: What Works?

• In Event: Crime and Place: Predicting and Preventing Crime

Abstract

Police and place managers use a wide variety of interventions to block crime opportunities within multi-family housing facilities (e.g., tenant screening, management training, evictions, CPTED strategies, code violation enforcement). In this paper, we use a method known as “conjunctive analysis of case configurations” (Miethe et al., 2008) to assess the impact of various combinations of interventions on apartment complex crime. This analysis is based on an exhaustive search and review of published descriptions and evaluations (in peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed outlets) of apartment complex crime reduction initiatives. Findings from this analysis will identify the most effective combinations of apartment crime interventions and offer insight into the mechanisms that create and suppress crime opportunities in these locations.

Authors

• Tamara D. Madensen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

• Logan Kennedy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

• Kelly Eilish Schmidt, University of Nevada, Las Vegas