CPTED: 범죄학과 건축학의 통섭적 결합

초록

As modern society is increasingly becoming more diverse and complex, there has been growing the need for the integration of disciplines, which also brings the interest in ‘consilience.’ The study of consilience seems to be challenging in that it breaks the barrier of established disciplines and creates a new realm of academy. Consilience refers to the process of creating new existence rather than combining heterogeneous material physically or melting into one another chemically. Accordingly some social science disciplines including economics and international politics have attempted to take advantage of the approaches of consilience in order to solve the problems that have troubled the disciplines. Crime appears to be one of the most difficult problems to be solved only by relying upon social science approaches, which also creates the need for the study of consilience. The interest in CPTED, in this sense, has been rekindled for its relevance to consilience. CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) appears to employ the approaches of consilience since its goal is to promote safer space and environment by combining two disciplines, criminology and architecture which seems to be less relevant. The barrier of individual discipline should be pulled down for the consilience of CPTED beyond formal and physical integration. Cooperative researches between criminologists and architects should be invigorated to deepen the understanding of each other, which would contribute to the establishment of a new discipline such as ‘criminal proxemics’ that integrates criminology with architecture.

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