Plans to cope with Theft in Agricultural Areas in Korea in the use of CPTED Strategies

This study has identified the current status of theft occurring in agricultural areas in Korea and suggested CPTED techniques as a plan for copong with them. in order to achieve the objective of this study, the current status of theft for crops and farming tools occurring in agricultural areas in Korea through related statistics and literature while providing realistic plans for coping with theft of crops in agricultural areas in korea by proposing the application of suggested CPTED. Agricultural areas in Korea have poor crime preventing facilities compared to urban areas. As there has recently been an increase in the proportion of second class citizens among the population in agricultural areas, their environment has become more weakened against crime. Furthermore, unlike crops that were produced in low value in the past, there is a high proportion of recently produced crops in high value. in addition, as crops are produced in the use of machines, crops and machines that are kept in agricultural areas are highly valuable. Furthermore, weak environment against crime has made it convenient for thieves to commit crime. In fact, according to the data from the National Police Agency, there were 5,318 cases of theft of agricultural and stockbreeding products in the past five years, and it was reported that the scale of damage reached to 56.5 billion KRW. In order to solve such issues, polices have introduced CPTED techniques to prevent the theft upon trespassing and property crime in korea since the 2000s to actively support them. CPTED techniques are to improve the environment that is exposed to high possibility of crime and to make it difficult to commit crime. Therefore, it is the method to prevent crime by completely defending the targets of criminals In order to prevent theft crime in agricultural areas in Korea with poor crime coping ability due to aging without protective instruments on highly valuable crops, this study has suggested the method in the use of CPTED