Crimes and feeling of security in women

The present article analyzes the relation between crime occurrence and feeling of security in the women residing in district 1 17 of Tehran Municipality. Feeling of security is a kind of positive mentality and orientation (satisfactory, convincible and pacifying) of citizens toward non-implication, presence and occurrence of anti-security events in present and future situations. In order to elaborate on the subject, the article has used feministic opinions so that it could to be able to show the role and share of structural and macro-variables in the feeling of security in women and their status in the general structure of the society. The feminists believe that structural and hideous violence against women would drive them to privatized settings and that fear of victimization in public settings serves as an obstacle in the way of equality and sameness of relations between men and women. Therefore, the most important hypothesis of the present research is: There is a significant relation between the crimes occurred at the living places of women and their feeling of security. The research has used a survey method on 1 152 plus-18 women in district 1 17 of Tehran municipality and designed a questionnaire to examine the main hypothesis by using multi-variable regression statistical methods. According to the findings of the research most women feel insecure toward violent crimes and corruption and the source of insecurity reaches its peak when they are alone at home at night. The second variable involved in creating the serious insecurity is taking taxis at night time.