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Space Theory, Environmental Criminology, Public Security and Bank Robbery
Public security is today one of the major national problems, and among the main crimes that have the greatest impact on the population is bank robbery. This occurs due not only to the violence that is inherent to it, but also to the direct impact of such crime on the ordinary activities on small towns’ populations, especially of Brazilian Northeast Region. These people are forced to go to distant towns for the most simple activities, due to the great importance of banking services that characterizes the technical period scientific informational. We will analyze how the main actors involved, police forces, criminal organizations and banking network manages the territory. Our analysis will take place on the geographic cut composed by the states of Pernambuco, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte and Ceará, and it will aim to identify the characteristics of the geographic space studied that impacts directly on the high incidence of such crime. We will use as a theoretical basis the concept of Milton Santos' geographic space and the foundations of environmental criminology, in order to point out public policy actions that make repression of such crime more effective.