“Climate change and crime—exploring future risks, resilience and crime through environmental design (CPTED)”

Climate change is a globally significant issue. How we respond and adapt to it, will have implications for thousands of years (IPCC, 2023). This paper explores linkages between climate change and crime to contribute knowledge to this significantly under-researched area of study. We highlight five ways climate change and crime are linked and use place-based theories from environmental criminology and an environmental horizon scanning process to help develop best practice. We call on environmental criminology, situational crime prevention and crime prevention through environmental design to adopt longer-term perspectives and apply situationally bespoke thinking and responses to help mitigate against the effects of global warming and support the planning, design, development, and maintenance of more sustainable and resilient cities in a collaborative way.