The Assessment of CPTED Components in the Crime Prevention Case study on the Rasht’s residential complexes (Abrisham, Pardisan, and Kaktoos)

The need for security is one of the most fundamental needs of human and the crime issue is included in the most important issues of human society. The prevention and reduction of crime is a matter that has an interdisciplinary nature, and requires the together attention of architects, urban-planners, and humanities experts. This paper studies the assessment of CPTED’s mold components in order to enhance the security in the Rasht’s residential complexes (Abrisham, Pardisan, and Kaktoos) and reduce the crime in there. In this study, the descriptive-analytic research methods, a questionnaire-based quantitative method, and literature review has been used. Moreover, the field-researches method is another approach that has been used in this study. On the other hand, the software SPSS, Friedman test, and variance analyses have been used for statistical analysis. According to the infinity of the society, the sample size was calculated based on Cochran’s optimal size formula and the result was 384 people. Finally, the main questionnaire with 36 questions was provided for 390 people. The results show that the strategies of Crime Prevention through Environmental Designs (CPTDE) such as territory-definition, monitoring, entry and access controls, and environmental quality earned coefficients of 0.464, 0.533, 0.561, and 0.402 respectively and with meaningful level less than 0.05, have an inverse correlation with crime trend; in the other words when these factors are included in the architecture designs further, the crime trends are reduced in the residential complexes accordingly.