Explanation of relationship between Social alienation and vandalism among the high school students and Junior in Yazd

Vandalism is one type of the Juvenile delinquency. Vandalism arising from rapid social change, human growth and increasing anomie and frustration of his desires is to achieve this desire. Feel alienated, extortion, anger and hatred they have towards society and the environment that conveys weakness and disorder in the structure of social and cultural norms of society. Therefore the aims of the present study explain the relationship between social alienation and Vandalism among high school students and Junior in Yazd. The questionnaire was the main data collection technique. The sampling method in this survey is a combination of classified and cluster sampling. 635 high school students and Junior were interviewed. Validity and reliability of the scale were assessed through Content validity and Cronbach alpha. The data were analyzed by SPSS 22. Finding showed that there was a significant and direct relationship between Social alienation and vandalism. There was direct and significant relationship between Social alienation and its various dimensions on one hand and vandalism and its dimensions on the other. In other words, the Social alienation, the higher will be the level of vandalism. The findings are proof for Seaman's theory regarding the relationship between social alienation to vandalism.