Spatial concentration of victims of crime against women in Darjeeling district

In this research paper an attempt has been made to study the concentration of women victims of Darjeeling district extending across the hill and terai region of northern part of West Bengal. The study is further carried out with the help of crime data collected from Superintendent of Police office, Darjeeling and Commissionerate of Police office, Siliguri. Analysis is done at regional, block, police station and village/town level to identify the concentration of victims of crime. Maximum percentage of victims hailed in terai region than the hills. Further Location quotient method is used to know the villages/towns having high concentration of victims. The number of villages having high concentration of victims is based on the LQ value above 1. The terai belt of district is much developed than the hill in terms of transportation, urbanisation, etc. The other factors like socio-economic condition and demographic characteristics is analysed to see its impact on concentration of victims and for the purpose District Census Handbook of Darjeeling is consulted. Further, the data has been organised and processed in word excel as well as in ARC GIS to prepare several maps to represent them in pictorial form.