Investigating Sociological Factors Affecting Vandalism (Case study: Ahvaz's High-school Students)

This research is a study on the efficient sociological factors on Vandalism across high school students of district two of Ahvaz. The research data was collected through a survey، and participants were 376 cases out of 17054 high-school students of district two. They were randomly selected by a categorical method. The dependent variable (vandalism) was investigated via a questionnaire and its relationship with the independent variables such as gender، educational level، socio-economic status، relationship with vandals، feeling of weakness and abnormality، relative deprivation، and social isolation، which are driven from the theories of various sociologists، including holistic sociologists or the very classics (Durkheim or Merton) and، contemporary sociologists (Cloward، Ohlin and Miller، Sutherland، Seaman and Hirshi) was hypothesized and tested. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics via SPSS. Analysis of the findings confirmed the research hypothesis. Results showed that the prediction equation of the trend tendency toward Vandalistic behavior can predict 0/406 percent of the variance of the independent variable. And since the research model could predict 0/406 percent of the variance of the independent variable using seven variables (academic achievement، social-economic status، contact with offenders، feeling of powerlessness، sense of relative deprivation، sense of social isolation، and sense of anomie)، it can be said that its predictive power is good.