Criminalidade hipercentral um estudo sobre o hipercentro de Belo Horizonte e os impactos das ações de requalificação do espaço urbano sobre os crimes de roubo consumado entre 1998 e 2015

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Bruna Hausemer
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Hipercentro; Programa Centro Vivo; Segurança Pública; Criminalidade urbana; Sociologia; Espaço urbano; Segurança pública
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/BUOS-B87HCG

This thesis studies the process of transformation of the hypercentral region of Belo Horizonte since its foundation in the light of the main sociological theories that interpret the criminal phenomenon based on its environmental components, which allows us to examine the problem of the evolution of crime in the Hipercentro from a different point of view regarding the role of urban planning and environmental interventions, it also analyzes the criminal dynamics of robberies between 1998 and 2015, encompassing a historical series of data that includes a period before, during and after the accomplishment of the largest and most recent program of urban requalification of the area: the Centro Vivo Program. For the analysis of this data, we constructed heat maps and maps of hot spots using QGIS software and graphics. The results corroborate with our hypothesis that hot spots would not be distributed throughout the hypercentral territory, nor behave in a random way, but would concentrate in certain regions and would remain stable in periods which there were no interventions in the territory; that the interventions of the Centro Vivo Program would alter the criminal dynamics of robberies; the hot spots would reduce after the interventions; there would be no dispersion or migration of crime into the surrounding area; and that the upward trend in crime would be weaken. The results also showed that most of the Hipercentro exhibited low densities of robberies during the analyzed period and that the hot spots appeared in spaces that had the same characteristics that were identified by our theoretical body as positively related to high criminal rates: areas that had been neglected by public authorities, whose buildings and street furniture were in a poor state of conservation, with high rates of vacancy, predominantly commercial use, intense flow of pedestrians and vehicles, high concentration of bus stops, presence of marginalized population, illegal activities and/or prostitution, and weak vigilance.