Bilecik rural criminal geography (2010-2019)

Bilecik is located on an important road and railway transit route connecting the Marmara Region to Central Anatolia and the Mediterranean. Because of this feature, knowing the distribution of crime events in Bilecik rural according to time and space constitutes the main purpose of the study. The study, in terms of revealing the variability of crime in a long period of 10 years in a rural area, examining the place and time of the crime types, contributing to rural crime research, which is less studied than urban crime research in the literature, and facilitating the understanding of crime by providing a detailed analysis to the rural police. is important. In the study, first of all, the crimes that occurred in the Bilecik countryside were classified according to purpose, and they were grouped under the titles of crimes against persons, assets and other crimes. In addition, the general crime distribution is not contented with, but also the subject of crime related to the reasons for committing crimes specific to rural areas. Subject; As a result of examining the reasons for the distribution of crime in rural settlements, with its spatial dimension; In this study, the temporal dimension of the analysis made on the basis of year, season, month, day and hour is also discussed. The universe of the study was the responsibility area of Bilecik Provincial Gendarmerie Command, and the material was the crime statistics between 2010-2019 in this area. In the study, "Document Analysis" and "Interview" technique was used to find an answer to the question, and the obtained data were evaluated and mapped in the ArcGIS 10.2 program. In the results of working; In the rural areas of Bilecik, crimes vary in spatial and temporal dimensions according to their type, crimes occur more frequently during the daylight hours on weekends in summer months when open space use and socialization increase, crimes form hot spots in settlements along the Istanbul-Antalya highway, and the crime rate decreases as you move away from the highway lines, Some crimes feed on socialization and some on seclusion, the change in the use of space creates a periodic crime effect, increasing or decreasing population trends and changing demographic structure are factors in the increase and decrease in crime, and parallel to the increase in altitude, the number and diversity of crimes decrease. It has been determined that crime has also diversified with the strengthening of the economic structure. At the end of the study, general and Bilecik rural suggestions were made to the law enforcement officers. Keywords: Bilecik, Crime, Countryside, Space, Time.