Fear-of-Crime Reduction by Environmental Design (FRED) Framework: The Case of an Australian Campus

This study examines people's experience of fear-of-crime in public environments using a mixed case study of an Australian university campus. This research proposes a Fear-of-crime Reduction by Environmental Design (FRED) framework to gain insights of how people experience fear-of-crime and builds an experience-based scheme with the possibility to create fear-of-crime metrics. FRED's benefits include the fulfilling of theoretical and practical gaps in the multidisciplinary discipline of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design. FRED increases awareness of the possibility of fear-of-crime experiences in public places. FRED promotes the creation of mental-health-driven designs, urban design policy frameworks, design guidelines, and on-site design checklists.