Violent crime and socioeconomic development: a study of the West of Paraná mesoregion

This article aims to analyze the correlation between the economic development of municipalities in the West of Paraná mesoregion and the incidence of violent crime (using homicide rates as a proxy for violent crime). The proposal was to build an Index of Socioeconomic Development (IDS) fo...

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Autores: Shikida, Pery Francisco Assis, Oliveira, Henrique Vargas Netto
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2012
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade de Taubaté (UNITAU)
Repositório:Revista brasileira de gestão e desenvolvimento regional
Idioma:português
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs2.rbgdr.net:article/784
Acesso em linha:https://www.rbgdr.net/revista/index.php/rbgdr/article/view/784
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Crimes violentos
correlação
desenvolvimento
Oeste do Paraná
Violent crimes
correlation
development
West Paraná
Descrição
Resumo:This article aims to analyze the correlation between the economic development of municipalities in the West of Paraná mesoregion and the incidence of violent crime (using homicide rates as a proxy for violent crime). The proposal was to build an Index of Socioeconomic Development (IDS) for each municipality in this mesoregion, and thereby to make the analysis of correlation with the proxy. As a result, the violent crimes tend to fall when the IDS increases to the municipalities of West Paraná mesoregion, although this correlation is considered very weak negative type, given the low Spearman coefficient found (-0.23). However, considering all the municipalities in the Paraná State, this ratio was almost zero (-0.07). Therefore, a comparison with the totality of Paraná State, West of Paraná mesoregion is placed in a relatively better position, even with its low Spearman coefficient.