Open Access Article SciPap-977
Crime Concentration and Expenditures of Municipalities on Security and Public Order
by Ivana Kraftová 1,* iD icon

1 Fakulta ekonomicko-správní, Ústav regionálních a bezpečnostních věd, Univerzita Pardubice, Studenská 95, Pardubice 53210, Czechia

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Abstract: The aim of this article is both to evaluate the relationship between population density and intensity of crime (in general), as well as the relationship between the expenditure on security and public order per capita, crime rate, and tying funds to a crime (on a sample of municipalities in the Pardubice Region). The relationship between population density and crime intensity is examined in European regions using two Eurostat typologies. Further examining relationships are judged by linear regression analysis, the dispersion and relations among standardized values of selected parameters, i.e. operating expenditures of municipal budgets spent in the area of security and public order per citizen, modified crime rate index, and tying of financial means to one criminal act. Although the direct proportion between population density and crime intensity has been demonstrated, the population of the municipality is not critical to the amount of its security and public order expenditure. Identified relations among the evaluated parameters are not completely analogous, the research has pointed to four different approaches in terms of solving the issues of security and public order.

Keywords: Population Density, Crime Intensity, Expenditure On Security And Public Order, Modified Crime Index, Tying Funds To A Crime, Municipalities Of The Pardubice Region

JEL classification:   H72 - State and Local Budget and Expenditures,   R53 - Public Facility Location Analysis • Public Investment and Capital Stock,   Z18 - Public Policy

SciPap 2019, 27(1), 977

Received: 18 July 2018 / Accepted: 8 April 2019 / Published: 23 March 2019