A oportunidade faz o ladrão : a criminologia ambiental aplicada na análise de ocorrências registradas pela Delegacia Especializada em Repressão a Roubos e Furtos de Veículos Automotores de Cuiabá-MT

Abstract

This work is carried out a study of descriptive-exploratory in occurrences registered by Specialized Police Repression in the Burglary and Theft of Motor Vehicles in Cuiabá, in the period between January and September 2013, from treatment of theoretical postulates supplied by Environmental Criminology, tool that provides an interpretative model of relevant developments of this typology criminal, aiming to offer a contribution to the elaboration of public policies for urban security, in addition to references to be applied by the city's residents in the prevention of situations that could result in victimization. Also, we tried to identify and examine, on the basis of primary documents and police expertise, to conduct deliquent on their variable spatial and temporal in search of patterns that might clarify immediate causes and situational purposes, reasons, decision-making and choice of victims by the offenders. The results indicated that the criminal patterns provided by Environmental Criminology can constitute an important resource for crime analysis, and for this reason proposes its use in the design of policies that articulate the spaces to urban crime patterns.