Sociological Explanation of Law-breaking among Iranian Citizens: A Meta-Analysis Approach

The law has been responsible for controlling and monitoring the citizen actions in social interaction, as well as it has two important pillars of norm and tradition. Regarding geographical system and subcultures of the community, the laws vary. Flouting the law and violation of legal norms have existed in most cultures but the quality and quantity of violations have been made all differences. The present study aims to answer the following questions: 1) what are the main causes of flouting the law among Iranian citizens? 2) why is there a tendency to flout the law among citizens?This research has been conducted based on the quantitative meta-analysis. The objective of this method is to integrate, systematically review and harmonize studies in the framework of the same research field. The statistical population consists 18 studies that 12 samples of the research documents were selected with the aim of composition and identification of its effect size.The findings shows that law-breaking as a dependent variables influenced by some variables such as individualism (0.388), Capital (0.407), Political (0.310), Cultural (0.398), Legal (0.346), Control (0.322), Anomie (0.526) and population (0.268). In sum, statistically speaking, the above-mentioned variables demonstrate law-breaking as follow: (Z =7.166, sig= 0.000) (Effect size=0.233).law-breaking is one of the most important social issues in the society. According to the results, it is strongly influenced by capital (social, cultural and political) factors as well as social control status. That is, the extent of legislation can be increased at the macro, middle and micro levels by increasing the amount of capital factors as well as strengthening the controlling system (formal and informal).