Citation

Sasaki Y, Fujii T, Kishimoto T. J. Soc. Saf. Sci. 2013; 20: 21-28.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Institute of Social Safety Science)

DOI

10.11314/jisss.20.21

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to clarify environmental factors which affect occurrence and nonoccurrence of suspicious persons cases against children. We investigated the physical environment of both places where the case occurred and where the case didn't occur, and analyzed the factors for occurrence and non-occurrence. The major findings are as follows. (1) Suspicious persons appear frequently where visibility is low and seldom appear at the place with wide view. (2) Suspicious persons tend to appear at the places where many children gather such as the places near schools and don't appear at quiet places where few people gather. (3) Suspicious persons more frequently appear on streets where automatic vending machine or small shops exist in residential area and less frequently appear on streets in downtown and quiet residential area.

Language: ja