| Abstract [eng] |
Insecurity, crime analysis and subsequent mapping are not only interest of researchers and professionals in a wide range of fields, but also of the general public. Although it is not possible to curb this social phenomenon completely, cartographic research contributes to crime prevention and the reduction of the global problem and can provide for further trends in the spread of crime by collecting and analyzing long-term data. The emergence of unsafe places, hotspots of crime and causes of their concentration are a new field of research that is not developed in both practical and methodical terms and has long-term potential. It is important to mention that both the group of respondents (pupils) included in the survey and their information provided via online mapping are a new and unfinished research area in Lithuania. The possibility of identifying crime scenes can serve not only for the law enforcement agencies in developing security strategies, but also in everyday lives. Identifying potentially unsafe places and then mapping them, provides an opportunity not only to predict the locations of future crimes, the potential hot spots of crime in the future, furthermore to increase control and prevention in very narrowly defined geographic areas. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to explore the possibilities of identification and mapping of unsafe places, thus contributing to the development of mapping studies. Various methods were used to perform the work: theoretical analysis of scientific sources, statistical methods, data processing and accumulation, comparison, their systematic analysis and discussion of the obtained results and also formulation of conclusion. The work consists of an introduction, three parts, conclusions, references and summaries in Lithuanian and English. The theoretical part of the work reviews the work of foreign and Lithuanian authors find out the possibilities of using information gathered by the public in cartographic research, as well as discussing and analyzing in detail the data received from the police recorded events. Results are presented with maps and time charts. Further, the data from unsafe places collected from the public is analyzed, a field study was carried out, during which the author visited the respondents in unsafe places. Finally, the statistical information is compared with the information provided by the respondents and in the end some areas are identified as unsafe. |
