A Multicriteria Nominal Classification Method to Define Public Safety Policies in Brazilian States

This paper presents an application using NomClass (a new multicriteria nominal classification method based on PROMETHEE) to define safety policies in Brazilian states regarding two dimensions: property crimes and violent crimes against people. The application includes 11 of the 26 states of Brazil and 9 criteria. Results show that applying the classification method to the public safety context is useful because it provides a quantitative systematic way to classify Brazilian states regarding violence parameters and then to apply the most suitable public safety policies guided by this classification.