The geographical examination of hot spots of Tehran municipality, zone 17

Spatial analysis of urban crimes helps to identify criminal behavior patterns, to discover hot spots and finally to alternate such condition and to create crime resistant spaces and to eliminate urban abnormalities. In fact, paying attention to place as a direct factor in crime occurrence in comparison to individual or structural factors, make it possible to present more practical procedures for crime prevention. This research has benefited from descriptive-analytic method and its aims are the geographical identification of hot spots of theft and drugs related crimes in zone 17 of Tehran municipality, explaining the geographical and physical-spatial factors influencing the appearance of crimes in the region under study. The results show that the main hot spots of zone 17 are in neighborhoods 1712, 1701, 1718 and 1711 which are of crowded and densely populated areas with improper physical structure. There is a meaningful statistical relation between population relative density and drugs-related crimes according to the amount of Pearson correlation coefficient: 0/511, with a reliability of 0/95 and an error level of less than 0/05. There is also a direct and powerful statistical relation between population relative density and theft-related crimes as Pearson test result indicates (Pearson correlation coefficient: 0/569; reliability: 0/95 and error level of less than 0/05). It means that the amount of theft-related crimes rises in proportion to the increase in population relative density.