The criminals action space and their correlation with urban landscape: a study of centrographic analysis and distribution of crime attractors
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1982-5153.2020v35n75p623Abstract
The present work has the objective of analyzing the action space of serial criminals at the individual level, from a longitudinal perspective, performing central statistics of the events perpetrated and analyzing them concerning the urban landscape, regarding the distribution of facilities, to verify if they work as attractive for the commission of crimes. In the work, the centrographic techniques of the occurrences, standard distance and the standard deviation ellipse were used. The methodology included a database of police records with spatial delimitation in the municipality of Belo Horizonte from 01/01/2011 to 12/31/2013. The results indicate that there is a criminal scope for most serial offenders and the standard deviation ellipse allows a representation that aggregates the action space and the dispersion form by the urban space, allowing to verify the relationship between the landscape and the location of the events.
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