Koncentrace kriminality a výdaje obcí na bezpečnost a veřejný pořádek

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.