Study the relationship between the feeling of relative deprivation and juvenile delinquency(Comparative study of high school students in Khorramabad and Yazd)

This article examines the relationship between the feeling of relative deprivation and delinquency among high school students in Khorramabad and Yazd. It seeks to examine the mechanisms that affect the relative deprivation of juvenile delinquency.The conceptual framework of this research includes the perspective of social structuralism, the perspective of social processes and the perspective of conflict. For this purpose, 402 high school students from Khorramabad and Yazd were surveyed in a multi-stage cluster sampling method during the academic year of 2016-2017. The sample size was obtained using the Cochran formula and the data collection tool was a researcher made questionnaire. The reliability of the questions is determined by the Cronbach's alpha coefficient and the validity of the research is of content validity type. The data were analyzed using Spss and Amos software.The results of correlation test showed that there was a significant relationship between the feelings of relative deprivation and delinquency among respondents in Yazd. This relationship was not meaningful among respondents in Khorramabad city. Also, the results of regression showed that the variables of moral outrage and anomy had the most effect in explaining the variance of delinquency among respondents in Khorramabad and Yazd. So that, Respectively, 33.7% and 42.9% of the variation in the amount of delinquency in each city.