What Is The Relationship Between Space And Crime
Nubani and Wineman (2005) researched how spatial syntax can be used to identify relationships between space and crime. These techniques investigated the implications and effects spatial layout and characteristics can have on crime. Although the focus is on a broader scale, i.e. using whole neighbourhoods and street networks, it effectively demonstrates how space can not only effect crime but consequently effect individual’s relationships with space under the influence of crime. Whilst there has not been an empirical or theoretical studies analysing how a stranger intruding the home affects the home and the individual's relationship within their domestic space; Bronfen notes how "[a] criminal can enter the home of his victim undetected and potentially