Exploring the impacts of life quality on the offence of robbery

This research has sought to relate the notion of life quality to an underlying notion called offence. Life quality includes an individual's feelings and perception of his/her situation in life in a context of value and cultural systems in which h/she lives and is related with his/her goals, expectations and concerns. The theoretical framework of this research has been drawn on the Theory of Social Disorganization, Theory of Merton's Deviance, Satisfaction Theory, Relative Deprivation Theory, Pressure Theory, and Poverty Culture such that any shortage in economic, social and cultural areas will be regarded as laying the ground for crimes and deviance. This article is aimed to examine the impacts of life quality on the commission of robbery.
This present article is a survey research. This study used a researcher made questionnaire and was conducted on 432 robbers who were serving prison terms by the time the research was conducted in Tehran. The research sample was selected via classified sampling methods and proportional sampling.
Findings: Research findings showed that there was a significant relationship between independent variables including income, education, satisfaction with the existing life situation, and social anomalies and the dependent variable of the research (robbery). For this, all fort hypotheses were statistically confirmed.