Abstract
Many studies have been focused on understanding the occurance of the crimes since 20th century. Following years, the geographical location have been identified as having a very important contribution in understanding the crime. Thus, researchers have also included the spatial factors in their working field while determining the influencing factors on crime. Studies have concluded that these factors also vary according to the location of the study in different regions. However, the factors affecting the crime are changed not only by the location but they also changed according to the scale of the research of the same study area. In this study, the factors influencing crime are identified by changing the scale of the study area that covers the central district of Izmir. The study established the differences of the identified variables which affected on robbery events at the comparison of regional and local scales of the same study area by using spatial statistical methods. The results of the research has current findings to support decisions on crime prevention studies.