Jegede, Foluke and Adewale, B. A. and AYARA, EFE JOANNA and Faleti, Michael Oluwatimilehin (2022) Users’ Perception of Compliance of Security Features with Defensible Space Principles in Selected Secondary Schools in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. In: 3rd International Conference on Energy and Sustainable Environment, 2021, Online.
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The idea of preventing crime by strategically using the environment as tool has been explored for decades. Defensible space provides architectural strategies for effectively preventing crime by reorganizing the physical environment and giving inhabitants control over their surroundings. This study seeks to examine the security features allaying with defensible space in four selected secondary schools in Ota, Ogun state, Nigeria, with a view to making contributions on how to improve security in such environments for users. The study identifies areas for further improvements based on users' perception, towards enhancing security in the academic environments in Nigeria. Four selected secondary schools in Ota, publicly and privately owned was used for the study. The study used quantitative and qualitative research methods to obtain data from 149 students, in addition with 33 teachers from four secondary schools. The collected data were descriptively analysed with the use of SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) software. Results showed that there are evidences of elements of defensible space strategies, which are Territoriality and Natural surveillance that were adequately perceived and being implemented by the respondents. Deterioration of school buildings and poor road construction were seen. These were evidences of the elements of Milieu and Image, an indication of defensible space perception. Students dissatisfaction with overall school security was also revealed. The study further shows that appropriate maintenance strategies can help enhance the physical and security conditions of school environment in Nigeria.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Secondary School, Security, Defensible space, Environment, Ogun State |
| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > NA Architecture T Technology > TH Building construction |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Civil Engineering and the Environment Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences > School of Art |
| Depositing User: | nwokealisi |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jun 2023 10:33 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jun 2023 10:33 |
| URI: | http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/17060 |
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