The empirical results from past research are quite clear. When the surrounding crime level goes up, housing prices go down. However, what has not been acknowledged in the previous literature is that different crimes might impact our willingness-to-pay heterogeneously. As most of the previous research is done through the usage of simple crime rates, this thesis acknowledges the relative severeness of different crimes. Using the newly developed crime harm index (CHI), the relative severity and harm inflicted by a specific crime is identified. The study is conducted in Sweden, Stockholm, using data for the year 2020. With the use of hedonic price equations, spatial models as well as graphical information system software, this thesis estimates a significant, and non-negligible negative relationship between increased area mean CHI and apartment prices. To the best of the author's knowledge, this is one of the very first analyses within the literature, which acknowledges the relative severeness of crimes, and the first to show a significant negative relationship between increased criminal harm and apartment prices. Further, the resulting estimates and method used in this thesis can be utilized to differentiate between the costs of different crimes, hence enabling precise cost estimates. These estimates could for example be of great use to policymaking, urban planners, and decision-making regarding safety investment.

Den aktuella studien ämnar undersöka huruvida de mest brottsfrekventa delområdena i Malmö även är de delområden med högst brottsskadevärde. Genom en analys av registerdata över anmälda brott framkommer det att 13 delområde i Malmö både uppvisar det högsta brottsskadevärdet och den högsta brottsfrekvensen. Fem delområden har dock enbart ett högt brottsskadevärde samtidigt som fem delområden enbart har en hög brottsfrekvens. Detta indikerar på att brottsbekämpande aktörer även bör komplettera sina arbetsmetoder mot brottsfrekventa plaster med metoder som riktar sig mot platser med höga brottsskadevärden. Därmed är det tänkbart att det brottsförebyggande arbetet skulle effektiviseras. I resultatet framkommer det även svaga samband mellan flertalet olika oberoende variabler, kopplade till teori, och delområden som kan klassificeras som brottsfrekventa och/eller med ett högt brottsskadevärde. Sammanfattningsvis uppmuntrar studien till vidare forskning inom ämnet med fokus på mikroplatser. / The current study aims to investigate whether or not the neighborhoods with the highest crime rates in Malmö also are the areas with the highest crime harm. A database analysis of reported crime incidents shows that 13 of the highest crime rate neighborhoods likewise are the neighborhoods with the highest crime harm rate. Five neighborhoods are solely classified as high crime rate neighborhoods meanwhile five are classified solely as high crime harm neighborhoods. This result indicates that the crime fighting agencies should supplement their working methods against high-crime areas with methods targeting neighborhoods with high crime harm. Thereby it is possible that the crime prevention could work more efficiently. The result also shows on weak correlations between several different independent variables, linked to theory, and neighborhoods that can be classified as high crime rate neighborhoods and/or a high crime harm neighborhoods. In conclusion the study encourages for further research on the subject with focus on microplaces.

Brott mot person i offentlig miljö är en av de brottskategorier som skapar störst otrygghet i det svenska samhället. Under 2018 anmäldes totalt 5101 brott mot person i offentlig miljö i Malmö, vilket är cirka 10% av de totalt anmälda brotten i Malmö. För att minska brott i offentlig miljö krävs det att polisen arbetar effektivt och på rätt platser. Tidigare forskning visar på att arbete med ”hot spot” är en effektiv metod inom det polisiära brottspreventiva arbetet och ”harm spot” kan vara ett bra alternativ till att förbättra arbetet ytterligare. I denna uppsats är syftet att ge polisen ytterligare information om var den allvarligaste brottsligheten i Malmö sker. Detta genom att undersöka och presentera ”hot & harm spot”-kartor som jämför brottsligheten i Malmös delområden. Studien ämnar delvis att visa var brotten med högt skadevärde sker och om det verkligen sker i de särskilt utsatta områdena, Lindängen, Seved och Rosengård (NOA 2017), eller om det sker över hela Malmö. Studien ämnar även att undersöka om ”hot spots” och ”harm spots” stämmer överens gällande var brottsligheten i offentlig miljö begås. Resultaten i studien tyder på att brott i offentlig miljö framförallt sker i de centrala delarna i Malmö och att de platser som beräknas ha högst skadevärde finns i Lindängen och i centrum. Det vill säga enbart i ett av tre särskilt utsatta områden. / The public crime is the type of crime that makes people feel most unsafe in the Swedish society. During 2018 there was a total of 5101 criminal notifications of crimes against people in public spaces in the city of Malmö, which is approximately 10% of all reported crimes in Malmö. It is important for the police to work efficiently and with precision to reduce the public crime. ”Hot spot policing”, as an method for the police, is shown to have good results in making their work in reducing crime more efficient and ”harm spot policing” could be an alternative to make their work even more efficient. The main goal of this study is to give the Malmö police more knowledge about where the most serious crime in Malmö occur, by using the ”Swedish Crime Harm Index” made by Rinaldo (2015). The aim is to compare and to present the public crimes in particularly deprived areas and the remaining Malmö by using ”hot-” and ”harm spot” maps. According to the “Nationella operativa avdelningen” (2017) there are three particularly deprived areas in Malmö, which is Lindängen, Seved and Rosengård. The study will also look into if the ”hot spots” and ”harm spots” will differ in the places where the crimes is commited. The result in this study mainly show that the most crimes occur in the central parts of Malmö and the crimes with highest harm value occur in Lindängen and the central areas. Which means in only one out of three of the particularly deprived areas.