Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) is a crime prevention strategy used in many advanced states to safeguard community members from criminal activities. In a non-western setting of Malaysia, individual selected states apply the system to control their crime occurrences. Despite its implementation throughout its municipal councils in the states, Selangor still has the highest recorded crime rates throughout Malaysia. A few factors and underlying issues have caused high crime rates despite the implementation of CPTED. This paper highlights three of those issues: the misunderstanding of the CPTED concept, insufficient funding, and lack of police involvement in designing the CPTED application. The study aims to understand further the theories of CPTED and ways of practical implementations. The study’s research approach is qualitative. The study found that most projects are designed by people that do not understand CPTED entirely; due to the yearly budget limitations, it has limited CPTED application and strategies, and the police have not been included in the CPTED design process. Addressing these issues deliver the long-term social and economic benefits to the community. At a larger scale, the country and CPTED strategies, which are well designed, reduces cost and increases the quality of life for its residents.

通过环境设计预防犯罪 (CPTED) 是许多先进州使用的预防犯罪策略，以保护社区成员免受犯罪活动的侵害。在马来西亚的非西方环境中，个别选定的州应用该系统来控制其犯罪事件。尽管它在各州的市政委员会中实施，但雪兰莪州的犯罪率仍然是马来西亚最高的犯罪率。尽管实施了 CPTED，但仍有一些因素和潜在问题导致了高犯罪率。本文强调了其中三个问题：对 CPTED 概念的误解、资金不足以及在设计 CPTED 应用程序时缺乏警察参与。该研究旨在进一步了解 CPTED 的理论和实际实施方式。该研究的研究方法是定性的。研究发现，大多数项目是由不完全了解 CPTED 的人设计的；由于每年的预算限制，限制了CPTED的应用和策略，警察也没有被纳入CPTED的设计过程。解决这些问题可为社区带来长期的社会和经济效益。在更大范围内，精心设计的国家和 CPTED 战略降低了成本并提高了居民的生活质量。