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Impacts of Urban Planning on Crime Occurrence in Riyadh: A Statistical Analysis

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Turki Almutairi,

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Urban planning plays a key role in crime prevention. This planning helps in identifying the root causes and inaugurates the presence of the states and aids in building the trust among the groups and institutions which is a key tactic in crime prevention. Understanding the correlation amongst urban planning and crimes are significant for the criminologists as well as the urban planners to make suitable decisions for designing urban areas. The central aim involved in preventing crimes are to minimize the existing opportunities for committing crime. Such type of prevention is termed as SCP (Situational Crime Prevention). Though conventional methods attempted to study the urban planning impacts on crime occurrence, these researches disregarded significant factors involved in determining the crime occurrence. Moreover, SCP model is underutilized by neglecting its positive impacts

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