ROZMIESZCZENIE I CZYNNIKI PRZESTĘPCZOŚCI W WOJEWÓDZTWIE ŁÓDZKIM
SPATIAL CRIME DISTRIBUTION AND CRIME FACTORS IN LODZKIE VOIVODESHIP

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyse the spatial distribution and concentration of crimes registered by the police in 2015–2019 in the Lodzkie voivodeship. Furthermore, the aim of the study is to show important factors of crime in the voivodeship. Data on the number of identified crimes and on 30 variables potentially influencing crime were collected from the Central Statistical Office. 24 poviats (NUTS 4) were analysed. Crime rates, crime location quotient LQC and spatial autocorrelation indicators were used to analyse the spatial crime distribution and concentration. The influence of the most important six crime factors was determined by constructing spatial regression models. The spatial distribution of crimes in analysed voivodeship is strongly differentiated (but no pattern of crime was found). The second largest city – Piotrkow Trybunalski and the Lodz, Skierniewice, kutnowski, pabianicki, belchatowski, radomszczanski poviats are at risk of crimes. Two social factors (number of households benefiting from community social assistance under criterion of income, number of evictions from dwellings ruled by the court) were identified as having the most significant influence on crime rates.

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