Investigating the Negative Consequences of Social Capital in Criminal Groups (Comparison with Ordinary People in Karaj)

Social capital is a very important factor in the occurrence and prevention of crime that can help us explain crime and criminal behavior, but social capital does not necessarily lead to positive results and can lead to criminal groups. To negative results. The purpose of this article is to investigate the negative consequences of social capital on delinquency in criminal groups according to criminological theories in the three crimes of murder, robbery and drugs in the city of Karaj, so it is practical.

Descriptive and causal-comparative and data collection tools were documents and a researcher-made questionnaire. The investigation community found the convicts convicted of robbery, murder, and drugs in the Karaj penitentiary and ordinary people in 1397. For this purpose, 200 people were randomly selected as a statistical sample. Two methods of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data.

Ethical Considerations:

 From the beginning of this article, we have adhered to the principle of fidelity, lack of scientific bias and the principle of honesty.

The findings showed that although in general the increase in public social capital leads to a decrease in crime, but an increase in social capital in the group of criminals (robbery) compared to ordinary people can not lead to a decrease in crime and this has negative consequences. Social capital is a group.

The higher the social capital in the society, the lower the crime rate, but the increase of the same capital between criminal networks and neighborhoods with high crime rate can lead to aggravation of crime, so that the causal relationship between the two It may flow in both directions, ie it is effective both in reducing social capital and in creating social crimes. Therefore, the results showed that increasing social capital in criminal groups (robbery) based on the two components of trust and Social support, which is one of the characteristics of measuring social capital in this study, has a negative effect on delinquency, although increasing social capital in the normal group leads to reducing delinquency.