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IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering 245 (2017) 072012 doi:10.1088/1757-899X/245/7/072012
Geography of Crime and Its Relation to Location: The City of 
Balıkesir (Turkey) 
Erman Aksoy
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Gazi University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning, 
Ankara, Turkey 
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Abstract. 
A person cannot continue his/her own life without security which is one of the 
basic needs of the human being, for not only personal security but also the security of the 
persons’ living environment is of extreme importance. We can talk about the habitability and 
sustainability of the urban environment so long as the people may, in time and in place, freely 
select all their activities, such as their residence, work, education, shopping and entertainment 
options. On the other hand, it is well known that crime in the cities that create insecurity is 
directly related to urban areas and urban utilization. In the realization of an act of crime, the 
fact that the victim and the concepts of place are as much impactful as the convict indicates 
that the place where the crime is committed is, at least, as responsible as the person who 
commits the crime. Based on this fact, in this article, we shall attempt at identifying the reasons 
related to place by examining the relation between the factors that bring the crime into being 
and the urban utilization in the City of Balıkesir. Thus, in the fight against crime, the 
prevention of crime and/or its avoidance, which is not the duty and under the authority of only 
the law enforcement agency, the attention and also that of other disciplines (Sociology and 
Criminology) is invited to be focused on the effectiveness of urban planning.