Mapeamento da criminalidade em Laguna/SC: relações entre a ocorrência de crimes e a configuração espacial

Abstract

Crime prevention can provide safer neighborhoods and cities by absorbing concepts of urban vitality and relationships with urbanity. The motivation of this investigation has arisen to reflect and to define the concepts on how the spatial configuration can affect the levels of security in those places that welcome the community life of its inhabitants. As a study clipping, the urban area of the city of Laguna, which presents approximately 44,000 inhabitants (IBGE, 2016), is presented in the South of Santa Catarina, seeking to verify spatial syntax relationships with space security. This paper will present a brief bibliographic review, methodology and case study based on the Spatial Syntax Theory and data collected at the Military Police of Santa Catarina.