Abstract
Urban crime is a social problem, that causes collapse of urban communities. To prevent crime, it is critical to select areas most vulnerable to crime, and focus on preventing crime on those areas, to increase efficiency of local budget allocations. Crime-vulnerable areas have been assessed, based on the experience of public officials and/or crime data. However, personal experience is subjective, and access to domestic crime data is limited. The purpose of this study is to propose a crime risk assessment method, which evaluates crime vulnerability of administrative districts. Research methods are as follow: 1) Selecting influential factors of crime, through previous crime research, 2) Standardization and weighting of indigenous data set, for calculating the crime vulnerability index, 3) Selecting vulnerable areas by the vulnerability index, and verifying results through interviews. The result of the crime risk assessment is relatively similar, to the distribution of actual crime occurrence, and local officials’ perception of crime areas. The crime risk assessment model presented in this study, can be used as a practical as well as effective decision-making tool, for establishing crime prevention policies.
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