Abstract
In this study, it is aimed to understand what are the spatial characteristics that encourage the perpetrator to commit a crime or facilitate the perpetration of crime based on the narratives of the victims of property damage. The reason why the study was carried out on the victims is that victims who suffered from the crime after a developing crime recall and explain the crime better than the perpetrators of the crime. Determining the spatial characteristics of the region where the crime was committed, as well as the sociological-based environmental characteristics (such as the phenomenon of social supervision and control) contributes to a better understanding of the crime phenomenon. In the study, which was dealt with the phenomological qualitative method, 20 semi-structured interviews were conducted with the victims of the crime of damaging the property in Bayburt province. In the study where the crime area is classified as sheltered, accessible, fixed and mobile, using the qualitative data analysis program Nvivo 12, the information about past victimization, social relationship level, economic situation, hostility situation and past crime experience describing the sociological characteristics of the four specified spaces five themes were reached.
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