Investigating the role of place in creating societal security(case study: district 20, Tehran)

Nowadays, the type of places has been noticed by analyzers, city managers and police commanders in reducing crime and security feeling, and has been highly successful in establishing security and implementing police instructions. Given this issue, the present research aims to investigate the impact of various roles of places in boosting social security in district 20 in Tehran.

The present research, in terms of purpose, is of applied type and in terms of method is of descriptive-survey type. The target statistical population is the citizens and police forces staff in district 20 in Tehran, and based on statistics N= 368,285. Simple random sampling method was used, and based on Cochran's formula 383 people were selected. The data was collected using a questionnaire among the statistical population, and its reliability was confirmed using Cronbach’s alpha test. Also, the impact of location as an independent variable on the dependent variable (enhancing social security) has been proven with a confidence level of 0.93.

The results of the research indicate that given the data and examining the role of place, highest rate of crimes occurs in places having economic and cultural role (such as parks) as well as abandoned and worn-out urban areas; and it poses some challenges to societal security. Therefore, the type of place has a positive and direct impact on the crime fluctuations, and as a result on the ups and downs of urban societal security. Hence, examining the role of place and its interrelationship with security will strengthen police reports and crime registration, and could improve the police power by investigating and discovering  crimes and establishing training backgrounds for expert police through the use of more accurate methods and techniques to identify safe and unsafe places.