The survey on the effect of social capital in decreasing the rate of crimes (case study: Youth OF Shahriar division)

Background and The existence of some crimes such as assassination and rubbery and something like those caused by social incompatibility, the way of society individuals interactions with each other, the kind of communication networks, dominant values of these relations and importantly, the way of individuals participation for mutual problem-solving. In other word, decreasing or changing social capital in the society have a positive or negative effect on decreasing or increasing abnormalities and crimes and they’re very necessary for creating a healthy society and considering the way of people interaction in different areas, so the main purpose of this research was to survey the effect of social capital in decreasing the rate of crimes in Shari division. The current research method was descriptive-correlation. The sampling universe consists of all youth of sharer division between the ages of 18 till 30 years old (288 people) and the sample size was 174 youth (87 people with criminality experience and 87 people with no criminal experience).The sampling method was simple random sampling. The authors have used a researcher-made questionnaire for measuring social capital and decreasing the rate of crimes. They also have used Cronbachs Alpha for calculating the reliability of the tools and examined the validity of them through content validity method. The data were analyzed by SPSS software and through Pearson correlation and multi-variable regression test. The findings of the research indicated that there is a significant relationship between the rate of social capital and its dimensions among criminals and non-criminals, which this rate among criminals was lesser than non0criminals.Also there is a negative relationship between social capital dimensions (social trust, social correlation, group interaction and social participation) and decreasing the rate of crimes. Also social trust was the negative anticipator of crime rate indicator. The more increase of mutual trust, positive group interaction, high social correlation, good level of social participation in the society, the most decrease of crimes in society.