The Evaluation of Effective Factors on the Youths’ Vandalistic Behavior with the Emphasis on the Role of Marginalization (Tehran)

The aim of this study to evaluate the effective factors on the youths’ vandalistic behavior especially the role of marginalization. The reasoning of this study is that marginalization has a significant effect on vandalistic behaviors as a strong and direct factor and besides that, variables such as anomy, contacting with deviants, base and gender as mediator factors, strengthen this effect.

This study is performed by predicative and survey methods and the techniques of taking notes and questionnaire were used. A sample of 350 people was selected using a random cluster sampling. The analysis of data is done with the help of descriptive and inferential statistics and parametric and non-parametric statistics.

The results show that there is a significant relationship between socio-economic base, anomy, the amount of contacting with deviants and vandalistic behaviors of marginalized and non-marginalized youth.

The findings show that the youths' vandalistic behaviors are more in margins than the non-margined areas and these are heightened considering other factors such as anomy, contacting the deviants and peoples' socio-economic base.