Document Type : Research Paper
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Abstract
Security is one of human societal needs and the most important
index of space quality. In our modern complex urban societies,
different environmental factors result various disharmonies and crimes
in an i.nteractive influence process. On the other hand, occurrence of
diverse societal abnormalities especially drug crimes is currently one
of the important problems of our country and judicial authorities
concerns. Thus, this research has tried to take a new step towards
environmental prevention by focusing on the identification and
geographic analysis of drug crimes in Kerman city. It has hied to
specify the major hotspots of drug crimes in Kerman city using
primary statistical methods and kernel density estimation by
illustrating the importance of crime hotspots study. It is obvious that
the results of this study can help environmental prevention activities
and police performances against drug abuse and trafficking in Kerman
and also we can prevent f0l111ingof these regions by understanding
spatial, temporal and societal factors fC)lming crime hotspots. The
results indicate that drug-dealing crime center is approximately
coincident with central part of the city with an inclination to both east
and west. The congestion of residential usage in these parts of the city
and lack of urban facilities such as cuitural, sports, green lands and
recreation and healthy leisure activities that provide prevention of
entering teenagers and young adults into delinquency groups is one of
the efTective enviromnental reasons for the high drug-dealing crime.
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