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作者

Natalia Sypion-Dutkowska;Michael Leitner;Marek Dutkowski

来源

CITIES,Vol.119,Issue1,Article 103359

语言

英文

关键字

Crime;Urban crime;Large cities;Metropolization;Poland

作者单位

Institute of Spatial Management and Socio-Economic Geography, University of Szczecin, Mickiewicza 18 Street, 70-383 Szczecin, Poland;Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, E-104 Howe-Russell-Kniffen Geoscience Complex, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA;Institute of Spatial Management and Socio-Economic Geography, University of Szczecin, Mickiewicza 18 Street, 70-383 Szczecin, Poland;Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, E-104 Howe-Russell-Kniffen Geoscience Complex, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA

摘要

The aim of this study is to verify the hypothesis that the rapid metropolization process that has been taking place in large Polish cities since the beginning of the second phase of post-communist transition in 2000 leads to their socio-economic diversity, which is manifested, among others, in the differentiation of the level and structure of crime. Introduced into the discourse of this paper are subsequent stages of metropolization, which are called potential, initiating, advanced, and mature and which the examined cities have achieved so far. These stages have led to various economic and social effects, which resulted in changes in the level and structure of crime. Eighteen core cities of functional urban areas (FUAs) according to the classification ESPON 2007, were adopted as case study objects. Averaged crime data for the period 2013–2017 were analyzed in total and for seven types of crimes. The obtained results confirmed the adopted hypothesis.