A geografia urbana do crime e os efeitos do metrô sobre assaltos a ônibus na cidade de Salvador

Abstract

This paper aims to evaluate the effect of the implementation of the subway system in the city of Salvador on the occurrence of bus robbery crimes. The literature points out that there is a strong relationship between changes in the urban environment and the occurrence of traffic crimes. Thus, the work starts from the analysis of the urban intervention caused by the implementation of the subway system in the city of Salvador and the spatial distribution of the occurrence of bus robbery crimes before and after the subway implementation. The research analyzes urban dimension issues and socio-demographic factors and their relationship with bus robbery crimes. The methodological procedures include descriptive data analysis, spatial econometric analysis, differences in differences with scaling method and, finally, propensity score matching. The results obtained indicate that the implementation of the subway system had the effect of increasing the number of bus robbery crimes in the city of Salvador, suggesting that the change in bus lines and the bus-subway integration model may have expanded this practice due, among others, to the number of connections per passenger.