Özet:

Crime is a changing phenomenon with the community which is coeval with the history of humanity and lives from past to today. Many different science branches about crime works on their own disciplines. Geography science is one of the science branches which analyzes crime with distinctive disciplines and methods. Geographical location in which a crime hoppens is important. The place where the crime occurs is in the domain of geography in terms of the  cause-effect relation and distribution. In this study, the distribution of crime types, the appointment of the crime, being committed against a person, in other crimes, its impact on the city’s tried to be associated with geographic features and crimes against the person of the geographical faetures of the city were evaluated. Statistical data whic was derived from Izmir Provincial Security Directorate, Ödemiş District Police Department, Ödemiş Mayorship and TSI. The statistical data has been grouped, simplified and the crime database has been created whit the Geographic Information System (GIS). In the result of analysis, crimes whic are against the person in Ödemiş have been handled from different perspectives. The crimes against the person have been found the take up more space in Ödemiş, compared to the other crimes. Besides the crimes committed against the person  enhance in summers and  in the neighborhood where commercial activities are. In the Ödemiş town, the relationship between  the socio-economic structure and the crimes against the person has been tried to determine.Keywords: Ödemiş, geography of crime, crimes against the person

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