Ranking of the most important factors in creating urban crime with the sustainable development approach

Crime event is not always random as the place, time and manner of formation, but often depends on the structure and characteristics of the offense. It can be introduced as a very complicated social phenomenon that it is seen in different forms regarding social environment. At the same, crime as an undesirable social phenomenon, has social and economic, political, cultural, environmental reasons, and given the importance of the issue of crime, extensive studies have been conducted to identify and explain the causes of creating it in many countries in recent years. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to classify the most influential factors of crime-creating with emphasizing on sustainable development approach.
In this paper, the district 17 of Tehran was chosen as a case study. To identify the most important factors affecting the rise urban crime, several studies were performed. According to experts, twenty-four factors were identified, four of which have the least importance were omitted. Then for ranking factors, questionnaire was prepared and randomly distributed among the 17 district people in Tehran. The resulting data were analyzed using the software.
Findings: Among studied factors, ultimately, economic factors as the most important factor affecting the urban crime were selected.
Based the findings, the role of government agencies and stakeholders including municipalities and government agencies involved in urban management was considered and expansion of municipal facilities, infrastructure, economic development, public education and personal development was proposed.