Gender-based policies in crime prevention and community safety are important because they consider how women and men are affected differently by real and perceived threats of violence and crime. Whether we realise it or not, women navigate cities in a profoundly different way than men in order to feel respected and safe. Women are often forced […]

The recent announcement by the N.S.W. Government of committing funding toward public domain improvements such as installing closed-circuit television (CCTV) and improving public lighting as part of its new Safer Communities Program for improving safety for women and girls is one in a long line of similar type programs announced by State and Federal Governments

Being safe and secure is both a feeling and a reality and it is impossible to defend every place against everything. Security measures such as CCTV may have some level of effectiveness in the apprehension of an offender particularly after the event but ultimately, we can only do so much when we are dealing with

Rome was the first society to use public bathrooms – for men. While there were no public toilets or restrooms available to women a slave girl sent to the market might have risked being mugged or sexually assaulted out of necessity. By the 1700s urinals, made as permanent concrete structures, were available in many towns

We all know the feeling – when you’ve got to go you’ve got to go. Yet while central Governments and urban-based municipalities have promoted agendas relating to enhanced night time economies, the promotion of public transport and healthy lifestyles including supporting walking and cycling, such objectives have largely been undone to some extent by a

As many of us hunker down in our homes in response to these extraordinary times we might take a moment to ponder a new found understanding of what it really means to have a sense of security and to feel safe. As a social animal we all have an innate desire to connect, to communicate