University of Tehran Law Quarterly 2588-5618 38 3 2008 09 22 DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES AND SITUATIONAL CRIME PREVENTION DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES AND SITUATIONAL CRIME PREVENTION 27322 FA Journal Article 1970 01 01 One of the methods of preventing crimes is ‘Situational prevention’ that is to design environment, change physical conditions and with controlling of environment and crime opportunities decreases the rate of crime in the society. Some of these ways concentrates on environmental changes, control of criminals and supporting weak victims and taking care of crime targets. Since development of civilization and cities has made new problems of crimes and increased criminality, so it is nessesary to investigate provided situations and conditions in cities for criminals and criminality to change and decrease them. Special characteristics of city societies like accumulation of population, control lessing, cultural disharmony, architectural methods of making cities and bulding policy affecting on dangerous place situations and using of local abilities in prevention of crimes, are subjects that discussed here about them. One of the methods of preventing crimes is ‘Situational prevention’ that is to design environment, change physical conditions and with controlling of environment and crime opportunities decreases the rate of crime in the society. Some of these ways concentrates on environmental changes, control of criminals and supporting weak victims and taking care of crime targets. Since development of civilization and cities has made new problems of crimes and increased criminality, so it is nessesary to investigate provided situations and conditions in cities for criminals and criminality to change and decrease them. Special characteristics of city societies like accumulation of population, control lessing, cultural disharmony, architectural methods of making cities and bulding policy affecting on dangerous place situations and using of local abilities in prevention of crimes, are subjects that discussed here about them. https://jlq.ut.ac.ir/article_27322_e36acc228264a3a58f969e96c517ba4f.pdf