Urban Ecology and Youth Tendency to Crime in Tehran

Migration is one of the important social problems in Tehran. The article is to study negative effects of urban ecology on seasonal migrant youth’s tendency to crime and high risk behavior in Tehran. The theory framework is based on urban ecology of Chicago school and the research method is survey (questionnaire). Statistical population is all seasonal migrant youth that are living in Tehran temporarily. The descriptive findings showed that smoking, hookah and addiction are more common among seasonal migrant youth. According to the results, the differential association and social alienation with a correlation coefficient of 0/676 and 0/593 are of the strongest relation with the degree of vulnerability of seasonal migrant youth. The regression results indicated that independent variables explain 62 percent of the variance of dependent variable as tendency of seasonal migrant workers to crime and high risk behavior. The findings of this research can be effective in reducing the crimes of migrant youth.