Target Hardening: A Case Study

The building utilized the target hardening, controlling access to facilities, screening exits, and deflecting offenders SCP techniques.

The first technique that is utilized by the management of the building in question is Target Hardening. This building uses 2 separate doors at the front entrance which adds an additional step to deal with, which increases the effort of crime (picture 1). As an example, a person who wished to steal one of the building’s electronics would potentially have to find a way to get through 2 locked doors. While the idea of having two separate doors two gain access to the building is a potentially effective way of preventing crime, the building in question fails to take full advantage of the technique. Firstly, the second door as you are entering does not have a lock to it, so it is easily opened once the first door has been breached. Secondly, and most importantly, the fact that both doors open in the same direction mean that an offender would simply have to push the doors open with the force of their back/hip in order to leave the facility with heavy electronics. By having the doors open

This technique is exemplified by the use of two separate bathrooms for males and females (pictures 6&7). Interestingly, the two bathrooms are set up in a potentially very effective way in that they’re located on opposite sides of a large space. The doors to the bathrooms are separated by the building’s front entrance door, so that the female bathroom is on one side of the front entrance and the male bathroom is on the other side of the front entrance (picture 8). The increased separation of the two bathrooms has the potential to be more effective due to the fact that it would be more obvious if a male were to enter/exit the female bathroom (and vice versa). It would also make it more obvious if a male were hanging out around the female bathroom in a suspicious