1996 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Study on a Social and Natural Characteristics of Crime spacec Where Children are met in a City.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	07455238
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Town planning/Architectural planning
Research Institution	Chiba University
Principal Investigator	NAKAMURA Osamu Chiba University, Faculty of Horticulture, Professor, 園芸学部, 教授 (10092074)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	KINOSHITA Isami Chiba University, Faculty of Horticulture, Assistant Professor, 園芸学部, 助教授 (80251148) FUJII Eijiro Chiba University, Faculty of Horticulture, Assistant Professor, 園芸学部, 助教授 (40125951)
Project Period (FY)	1995 – 1996
Keywords	Child / Crime / City / Park / Street / Green area
Research Abstract	From the study using guestionnaire to about 10,500 children of 4th, 5th, and 6th class at 20 primary schools in Matsudo-, & Ichikawa-city of Chiba-pref., Koutou-& Katsushika-ward of Metropolitan Tokyo, it was found that about 40% of children met any of crimes. The places where crime might often happen, have evident spatial characteristics, which were for example parks and green area located backside of buildings at housing estates, parks surrounded by car parking on the streets, declining shopping street, ets. The place which was quite safe against crime was where neighbors could be concerned with what happened outdoors.