''How Improved Lighting Reduce Criminal Rates in Darkness?''
Find out more about the situations where improved lighting can be a crime prevention tool.
1.Deters potential offenders by increasing the risk that they will be recognized when committing crimes.
2.Police become more visible, thus leading to a decision to desist from crime.
3.Encourage more people to walk at night, which would increase informal surveillance.
4.Leads to the arrest and imprisonment of repeat offenders they can no longer commit crimes in the area.
New lighting can encourage residents to spend more time on their stoops thus increase informal surveillance.
