Sociologicko-geografické reflexie o urbánnej kriminalite (stav zločinnosti v mestách SR)
Urban Crime in the Reflections of Sociology and Geography (The Level of Criminality in the Towns of Slovak Republic)

Summary/Abstract: Urban Crime in the Reflections of Sociology and Geography (The Level of Criminality in the towns of Slovak Republic). The paper presents the overview of sociological theories on etiology of crime and the ecological and geographical analysis of criminality. Its aim is to contribute to more systematic knowledge about basic aspects of urban crime. The paper elucidates the contemporary research in several scientific disciplines that focuses on identification of the risk localities and their criminal potential, links, and dependence of crime on the socio_economic and socio_demographic phenomena and agents. The need of interdisciplinary research of crime is enormous in Slovakia and the idea becomes widely accepted that interdisciplinary criminality studies can contribute to the improvement of the safety of the Slovak towns characterised by unfavourable trends in crime. The author believes that his survey on sociological and geographical studies of urban crime and the analysis and classification of criminality in the selected Slovak towns presented in the second part of the paper, can serve as an incentive and point of departure and impulse for next sociological research on urban crime.

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