Examining the lighting situation in reducing urban crime with an emphasis on the CPTED approach The eara of study: Kianpars - Ahvaz

Background and goals: Urban spaces are the environment of human life and its activities. Crimes are committed as a destructive social phenomenon by man in these spaces. Including crimes in urban spaces that affect the quality of life and the security of citizens is the occurrence of urban crime. Factors such as urban planning, urban design, urban sprawl and social -Economics play an effective role in its occurrence or deterrence. Kianpars neighborhood can always face dangers like crime, depending on its location.Method: The aim of this paper is to study the lighting situation in reducing urban crime with an emphasis on CPTED approach in Kianpars neighborhood, Ahwaz, Which is done by descriptive-analytical method. In the descriptive section, statistics and information extracted from the Statistical Yearbook, the supreme court of the Khuzestan and police department of the study area were used. Finally, for analyzing the data, GIS and SPSS software have been used to analyze the relationship between the two factors of crime incidence and brightness levels Within the Kianpars range.Findings: The findings, which have been investigated in four areas, show that crimes committed in private space from 275 cases in Kianpars, 46 masses in private space in the first range: at the minimum of light, 43.5% , In the second range, 17.4%, and in the third range, 7.8% of the brightness, in the fourth range of brightness, with an unpredictable growth of 30.4%, which reflects the direct connection of light with reduced mass Ultimately, poor lighting conditions have resulted in reduced security and mass incidence and in general the lighting system was inefficient and in contradiction with CPTED principles. There is an inverse relationship between the occurrence of mass and light.Keywords: brightness, CPTED Approach, crime, Lighting, Security, Prevention, Design.