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Relação da prática de roubo a residência num espaço urbano e nos seus espaços rurais adjacentes
| Summary: | Abstract This report entitled "Relation to the practice of home invasion robbery in urban areas and their surrounding rural areas ", deals with a Case Study lead in the Destacamento Territorial de Loulé of GNR. Home invasion robbery is a highly complex crime due to the consequences caused by the authors on the victims. The intensification of this type of crime increases the sense of insecurity in the populations, since this crime against property is an effective violation of the citizen’s privacy. Therefore, in the context of Internal Security and criminal prevention, this issue assumes special relevance because amongst the violent and serious crime, home invasion robbery is the fourth most participated crime to security forces. The present investigation main objective is to analyze and understand the crime of home invasion robbery in urban and rural environments, within the Destacamento Territorial de Loulé area of operations. To fulfill the stated objective it was elaborated a central question, from which the derivative questions appeared, as well as a set of hypotheses that directed all the research. The methodology includes a literature review displayed in five theoretical chapters, which aims to consolidate the empiric conception. The fieldwork consists in a documentary and statistical analysis of Destacamento Territorial de Loulé area home invasion robbery criminal cases, in the last five years, complemented with knowledgeable individualities of this theme interviews. Resulting from the reviewed literature and the interviews results, we concluded that the home invasion robbery crime in Loulé’s municipality urban and rural areas, is a complex criminal event, which is not random, and it is not randomly distributed by time and space, resulting from the product of the opportunities resultant from the daily actions of the criminal perpetrators and potential victims. |
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| Subject: | Segurança Interna Roubo a Residência Prevenção Criminal GNR |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Document type: | master thesis |
| Identifiers: | ID: 201421160 |
| Access type: | Open |
| Associated institution: | Repositório Comum, Academia Militar, Repositório Comum |
| Funded project code: | 201421160 |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| Origin: | Repositório Comum |
| Summary: | Abstract This report entitled "Relation to the practice of home invasion robbery in urban areas and their surrounding rural areas ", deals with a Case Study lead in the Destacamento Territorial de Loulé of GNR. Home invasion robbery is a highly complex crime due to the consequences caused by the authors on the victims. The intensification of this type of crime increases the sense of insecurity in the populations, since this crime against property is an effective violation of the citizen’s privacy. Therefore, in the context of Internal Security and criminal prevention, this issue assumes special relevance because amongst the violent and serious crime, home invasion robbery is the fourth most participated crime to security forces. The present investigation main objective is to analyze and understand the crime of home invasion robbery in urban and rural environments, within the Destacamento Territorial de Loulé area of operations. To fulfill the stated objective it was elaborated a central question, from which the derivative questions appeared, as well as a set of hypotheses that directed all the research. The methodology includes a literature review displayed in five theoretical chapters, which aims to consolidate the empiric conception. The fieldwork consists in a documentary and statistical analysis of Destacamento Territorial de Loulé area home invasion robbery criminal cases, in the last five years, complemented with knowledgeable individualities of this theme interviews. Resulting from the reviewed literature and the interviews results, we concluded that the home invasion robbery crime in Loulé’s municipality urban and rural areas, is a complex criminal event, which is not random, and it is not randomly distributed by time and space, resulting from the product of the opportunities resultant from the daily actions of the criminal perpetrators and potential victims. |
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