Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Kiyfarī (Dec 2012)
Geognlphical analysis of drug crimes in Kerman city
Abstract
Security is one of human societal needs and the most importantindex of space quality. In our modern complex urban societies,different environmental factors result various disharmonies and crimesin an i.nteractive influence process. On the other hand, occurrence ofdiverse societal abnormalities especially drug crimes is currently oneof the important problems of our country and judicial authoritiesconcerns. Thus, this research has tried to take a new step towardsenvironmental prevention by focusing on the identification andgeographic analysis of drug crimes in Kerman city. It has hied tospecify the major hotspots of drug crimes in Kerman city usingprimary statistical methods and kernel density estimation byillustrating the importance of crime hotspots study. It is obvious thatthe results of this study can help environmental prevention activitiesand police performances against drug abuse and trafficking in Kermanand also we can prevent f0l111ingof these regions by understandingspatial, temporal and societal factors fC)lming crime hotspots. Theresults indicate that drug-dealing crime center is approximatelycoincident with central part of the city with an inclination to both eastand west. The congestion of residential usage in these parts of the cityand lack of urban facilities such as cuitural, sports, green lands andrecreation and healthy leisure activities that provide prevention ofentering teenagers and young adults into delinquency groups is one ofthe efTective enviromnental reasons for the high drug-dealing crime.
