THE URBAN SECURITY THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE CRIMINAL POLICY AND THE CRIME STATISTICS IN MACEDONIA

Abstract

Abstract: The urban security is an issue of public interest and is of utmost importance given the fact that the majority of the population lives in the urban areas and in our country it is considered that a great portion of the population spends most of the time living and/or working in the capital of the country no matter the official place of living declared. Therefore, it is of great significance to get knowledge about the crime trends in urban areas as well as to focus on the representation of the property, violent and other specific types of crimes in order to get better picture regarding the security in urban areas. The authors first refer to the significance of the criminal policy and its main objective of prevention and suppression of crime, especially in the cities. Furthermore, the institutions and mechanisms for achievement of the latter are examined. Given the aforementioned, the study consists of several parts: criminal policy for dealing with crime in urban areas and analysis of relevant legislation regarding the property and other selected is elaborated, second - determination of the crime trends according to several variables about the adult perpetrators and children as an even more important issue to discuss and deal with and presentation of the municipalities according to the number of persons convicted. In the conclusion, the author’s state that a serious problem in urban areas is the property crime and that, unfortunately, although the reported property crime is dominant in the whole crime range, a majority of the cases remains unsolved and this situation threatens urban security even more. Another issue to be dealt with is the increasing violence among children.