Analysis of the temporal distribution of pedestrian robberies in urban areas

the case of Porto Alegre

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https://doi.org/10.31060/rbsp.2023.v17.n2.1690

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Urban areas, Pedestrian Robberies, Temporal Distribution of Robberies

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the temporal distribution of pedestrian robberies in Porto Alegre over a period of six years, in different months, days of the week and periods of the day. Data were collected from the Department of Public Security of Rio Grande do Sul for the period from January 2013 to December 2018. Data were analyzed through the frequencies of temporal distributions of robberies and presented numerically and through graphics. The results reveal, for example, that the night period is that with the highest concentration of pedestrian robberies, regardless of the month and day of the week, while, in all months, the periods with the lowest amounts of pedestrian robberies tend, clearly, to alternate between dawn from Monday to Friday and the period between 8am and until 12pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Thus, these and other results of this study contribute to the existing knowledge about the temporal distribution of pedestrian robberies in urban areas.

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Author Biographies

Antônio Tarcísio Reis, Faculty of Architecture, PROPUR, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from UFRGS (1980), Ph.D. from Oxford Brookes University (1992) and post-doctorate from the University of Sydney (2003). Full Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and PROPUR / UFRGS (Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning), of which he was Coordinator from 2009 to 2013.

Alicia Kipper, Faculty of Architecture - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Architect and Urbanist graduated from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) was a FAPERGS Scientific Initiation fellow between 2019 and 2021 linked to the research "Security, Perception, Form and Configuration of Residential Areas".

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2023-08-01

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REIS, Antônio Tarcísio; KIPPER, Alicia. Analysis of the temporal distribution of pedestrian robberies in urban areas: the case of Porto Alegre. Revista Brasileira de Segurança Pública, [S. l.], v. 17, n. 2, p. 348–369, 2023. DOI: 10.31060/rbsp.2023.v17.n2.1690. Disponível em: https://revista.forumseguranca.org.br/index.php/rbsp/article/view/1690. Acesso em: 17 may. 2024.

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Vol. 17 No. 2 (2023): Revista Brasileira de Segurança Pública 33

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