Analysis of Physical-Environmental Indicators Affecting on Outbreak of Crimes Using Geographical Information System (case study: Police within 15)

Physical and social development of the cities and their transformation to heterogeneous social and cultural centers result in increasing the urban abnormalities. Occurring any kinds of crimes and social abnormalities has led to the important role of environment and physical in controlling and preventing delinquency for the urban planners. In this respect, the aim of the present study is to examine the selected effective environmental-physical indices on the occurrence of crimes in police station no.15 (Camploo) of Ahvaz. This study is applied-developmental and is done in descriptive-analytical method. Graphical analyzes in GIS environment have been employed for analyzing the data. Results show that mean center of the occurred crimes in Camploo region is consistent with geographical center of police station (Revolution Street) and the crimes related to the rubbery have been distributed in whole region. With regarding to this fact that communicative network in this region is squared and the inputs of this region are terminated to suburb and criminal regions, a suitable field has been created for the escape of criminals. Also because of inadequate lighting and its undesirable quality in the streets of this region, it can be said that the selected indices of this investigation play significant roles in accelerating the crime occurrence in the studied region.