The Role of Family in Abnormality and Crime in Children with a Case Study

Family is one of the most important grounds of crime and crime victimization development. The experts, welfare workers, lawyers and sociologists argue that the factor or factors should be identified that provide the kind of conditions under which the individuals abuse, tolerate or accept the crime in order to secure the society, reduce the social harms and finally propose the procedures to reform it. The aim of this study was to investigate the crime victimization of children in the city of Qom, Iran. Methods and Materials: A questionnaire was distributed and completed through the interviews with the parents live in Gom city and who have a child or children. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) test was used to compare the family structure with the children'' tendency towards criminal behaviors. The questionnaires were analyzed by the SPSS software, version 13. The sample size was 266 individuals. The findings of research showed that there is a meaningful inverse relationship among the children'' control by their families, the rate of children belonging to their families, family cohesion and tendency towards criminal behavior. In other words, as the above mentioned variables increase, the children'' tendency towards criminal behaviors decrease and vice versa (P<0.05). The comparison of results showed that the children with separated parents were more inclined to criminal behaviors.