Från etikett till åtgärder : Polisens lista över utsatta områden och dess effekter på kommunbrottslighet

In 2015 the Swedish Police published a list of so-called vulnerable neighborhoods where they deemed there is a substantial criminal impact on local communities. The aim of the list was to provide a situational outline to coordinate and concentrate resources against crime across multiple actors. However, if resources are redistributed from other neighborhoods, so-called spillover effects may mean that the overall crime levels remain unchanged or increase over time, even if crime decreases in vulnerable areas. To examine how the municipal crime levels are affected by the list, a quasi-experimental method is used with a multiple regression model for total crime, property crime, gun crime and drug crime. The results show there is nostatistically significant effect on being on the list for any type of crime. But if there is aneffect, the effect of the list will vary for different types of crime as the direction of the estimates differs