Offenders might more easily be able to see if parked cars contain valuable items. Increased visibility of potential victims allows better assessment of their vulnerability and the value of what they carry.Increased social activity outside the home in the evenings can increase the number of unoccupied homes available for burglary.If offenders commit crime in both light and darkness, nighttime arrests and subsequent imprisonment would reduce both daytime and nighttime crime.īox 2: How Improved Lighting Could INCREASE Crime (adapted from Pease1999).Better lighting can increase community pride and cohesiveness, leading to a greater willingness to intervene in crime and to report it.In additions, citizens might be motivated to pass on information about offenders. As a result, potential offenders might no longer see the neighborhood as affording easy pickings.
New lighting shows that city government and the police are determined to control crime.Improved lighting can encourage more people to walk at night, which would increase informal surveillance.New lighting can encourage residents to spend more time on their stoops or in their front yards in the evenings and thus increase informal surveillance.If improved lighting leads to the arrest and imprisonment of repeat offenders they can no longer commit crimes in the area.Police become more visible, thus leading to a decision to desist from crime.Improved lighting deters potential offenders by increasing the risk that they will be seen or recognized when committing crimes.Box 1: How Improved Lighting Could REDUCE Crime (adapted from Pease 1999).
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