Creating a safe street environment is the primary goal for urban planners and urban designers. However, the existing research findings on the relationship between street environment and criminal behavior are various and contradictory, which brings confusion to the practice of urban planning and design. This article reviews literature on crime prevention through street environmental design on three spatial levels—street networks, paths, and nodes. This article also explores the causes of diversity and contradiction in the existing conclusions. Finally, limitations of the existing research, directions of optimization, and further studies in this field are put forward.

创建安全的街道环境是城市规划人员和城市设计师的主要目标。然而，关于街道环境与犯罪行为之间关系的现有研究成果是多种多样且相互矛盾的，这给城市规划设计的实践带来了困惑。本文在街道网络，路径和节点这三个空间级别上回顾了通过街道环境设计预防犯罪的文献。本文还探讨了现有结论中造成多样性和矛盾的原因。最后，提出了现有研究的局限性，优化方向以及该领域的进一步研究。