Analysis of property crime in the Šumperk county

There are many studies dealing with effects that are partly responsible for an increase in crime. To the most frequently researched influences belong the impact of the unemployment, extent of the punishment or probability of the apprehension to the amount of the committed crimes. The goal of my thesis is to test the influence of the selected variables on the amount of thefts, using the data from 2000-2010 in the Šumperk county. As dependent variables unemployment and probability of apprehension were chosen. Multiple regression suggests that the two dependent variables have a negative effect on the explained variable. Probability of the charge is low, around 30 %. Probability of conviction is high, over 90 %. The most frequent punishment for theft was a imprisonment between 9 to 12 months