Castanho, José António GilNoronha, Teresa de2014-06-272014-06-272004Castanho, J.G. e Noronha Vaz, T. (2004) “Relation between some socio-economic indicators and the security factor - the case of Algarve”, 44th Congress of the European Regional Science Association. Porto, PortugalAUT: MTV00577;http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/4570The paper discusses the implications of the security factor in the regional development in Algarve region. Considering the goal of sustainable development and growth, some variables related to criminality at regional level have been observed and compared to the national values. The obtained data bases was applied in a methodological essay to search for significant statistical correlations between criminal registers and a set of social and economic indicators, namely: unemployment, internal regional product at mp and cp, regional added value, population density, entered legalised citizens and visiting foreign citizens. This study, developed at regional level, reports an observation period from 1995 and is based on the bibliographic support kindly supplied by the Cabinet of Legislative Politics and Planning in Ministry of Justice.engRegional developmentInternal securityCriminal records GPLP-MJCorrelationsSocial and economic pointersconference object