This study try to analysis the spatial relationship between crime occurrence and areal environ-ment features in Taiwan. Environment opportunities for crime vary amongst different areas, and both the place of offense and the residence of offender are related to this, so the locations of crimes have spatial variations. The data was based on the official records of National Burean of Criminal Invistiga­tion in 1981. We can find that, the spatial variation of violent crimes (i.e. murder, assault and rape) bear dif-ferent patterns from those of property crimes (i.e. residential burglary and nonresidential burglary). The spatial distribution of high rates of property crimes was developed withìn the interior areas of un-ban places, in these areas which represent: high level of commercial activity, complicated land use pat-terns (usually, commercial land use coexistes with residential land use), They are all associated with the high level of criminal opportunity. But the spatial distribution of violenr crimes was less than con­centrated, they are more complex crimes and appear to be strongly influenced by both motive and op­portunity. From multiple regressions analysis, which run for each crime, three of those seventeen in­dependent variables: the rate of house rent, the rate of administrative workers and the rate of popula­tion growth are highly intercorrelated with the rate of offenses. Criminal behavior is complex, the spatial variation of crimes does not only associated with the characteristics of areal environment but also related with the perceptions of criminals, so it need a more dynamic view to study criminogenic factors.