criminological review of qajarie

Qajar’s vicissitudinous era is getting many researchers attention in various fields of humanities. However, in the field of criminological studies this period has been neglected. The issue of this article is to study the underlying factors of the occurrence of crime in this era. This descriptive-analytical study based on the contents of first-hand historical sources have shown that the factors are derived from the socio-political structure of Iran in this period such as authoritarian rule and kingship, leading to phenomena of societal class, lack of security, migration, lack of enforceable law and, governmental, military, judicial and cultural corruption. The occurrence of these phenomena lead to increasing of poverty, unemployment, migration and thin agriculture and domestic and traditional production. According to criminological theories, these phenomena and bottlenecks provide and accelerate the causal roots of the occurrence of crime in the Qajar era.