Geography of Crime and Its Relation to Location: The City of Bal?kesir (Turkey)

World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban Planning Symposium - WMCAUS

土木建筑工程

Aksoy, Erman^1

Gazi University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning, Ankara, Turkey^1

关键词: Balikesir;    Geography of crimes;    Human being;    Law-enforcement agencies;    Living environment;    Personal security;    Urban areas;    Urban environments;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/245/7/072012/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/245/7/072012

学科分类：土木及结构工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

A person cannot continue his/her own life without security which is one of the basic needs of the human being, for not only personal security but also the security of the persons' living environment is of extreme importance. We can talk about the habitability and sustainability of the urban environment so long as the people may, in time and in place, freely select all their activities, such as their residence, work, education, shopping and entertainment options. On the other hand, it is well known that crime in the cities that create insecurity is directly related to urban areas and urban utilization. In the realization of an act of crime, the fact that the victim and the concepts of place are as much impactful as the convict indicates that the place where the crime is committed is, at least, as responsible as the person who commits the crime. Based on this fact, in this article, we shall attempt at identifying the reasons related to place by examining the relation between the factors that bring the crime into being and the urban utilization in the City of Balikesir. Thus, in the fight against crime, the prevention of crime and/or its avoidance, which is not the duty and under the authority of only the law enforcement agency, the attention and also that of other disciplines (Sociology and Criminology) is invited to be focused on the effectiveness of urban planning.