The purpose of this study is to analyze the structural changes in the determinants of regional criminal behaviors in Korea. This identified how the determinants of criminal behaviors depended on economic shock. A fixed effect model was applied for analyzing structural changes in the determinants of regional crime behaviors. Panel data with 13 regions from 1993 to 2008 was employed. There were significant structural changes of the determinants of top five felonies and rape crime before and after the financial crisis. Among the determinants of top five felonies economic factors, the number of foreigners, the educational level variables, and the numbers of police were different before and after the financial crisis. Meanwhile, economic factors, the number of young and foreigners, the educational level variables, and the murder crime drove the structural change in the determinants of rape crime. In the Non-Seoul Metropolitan Areas actions must be demanded aggressively by the level of age and education to deter top five felonies and rape crime.