Abstrakt:
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.
