Reducing violence: A proposal based on multicriteria SMARTS method

The use of different public policies for certain areas in the same region is a strategic issue for public safety management. Therefore, this article has developed a multicriteria model based on SMARTS method that prioritizes areas for a given region using demographic and socioeconomic issues. It used the “swing weights” procedure to elicit preferences for scale constants. This model was applied in Recife, where it was divided into human development units. The sensitivity analysis of scale constants helped to show that this model is robust, since there were few and not significant changes in the positioning of zones.