Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate and clarify the issues of crime prevention signboards through fieldworks and questionnaire surveys in suburban areas of Japan. We aim to clarify 1) relationship between current crime prevention signboards in town and people’s crime prevention consciousness, 2) structure of people’s positive attitude toward the augmentation of signboards, and 3) preferable crime prevention signboards design and way of installation which people feel impressively and strongly remember. It became clear that nearly half of people increase their crime prevention consciousness by signboards, people with strong concern about their town and community have positive opinion toward the installation of more signboards, signboards installed at the right angle to the direction of road tends to remain in people’s memory, and so on.
