نشریه مطالعات فرهنگی پلیس
پیاپی 3 (زمستان 1393)

The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of religious lifestyle on the prevention of crime in the province is among the prisoners and non-prisoners .In this study, the indicator intended for lifestyle is religious. The study is a quantitative survey, the data of which were collected using structured questionnaires, through criminal and non-criminal groups. The study population, included prisoners and non-prisoners, was 310, by Morgan and Craig formula. Sampling method was stratified. The results showed that drug trafficking has the highest rate of religious disbelief, among the other crimes. It must be said that there is no significant difference between religious life style offenders and non-offender. But, The results showed that religious lifestyle by creating an emotional coherence is significantly associated with the incidence of crime.

Drug abuse includes a wide range of risky behaviors and is considered as one of the most important challenges in the field of individual health, family and community. The purpose of this study was to determine factors influencing drug abuse between applicants for driving license in Hamadan by application of the theory of Planned Behavior. In this descriptive analytical study (had done in 1391), samples were collected from male and female applicants for certification of driving in 6 schools driving of Hamadan. The survey was carried out through cluster sampling and 388 applicants were gathered. Data were collected using the standard self-report questionnaire and were analyzed using SPSS 16, with the help of chi-squared test, correlation coefficient and logistic regression analysis. Participants in the study gained 38.1, 31.4 and 81.9 percent of points, respectively for attitudes toward drug abuse, subjective norms, and perceived behavior control. There was a significant relationship between the experience of drug abuse and the following demographics variables: sex and marriage status. Also there was a significant relationship between the experiences of drug abuse and the following variables: intention to drug abuse, having friends who had experienced alcohol, drug abuse and medications addiction treatment, having the experience of alcohol consumption, drug abuse consumption and medications addiction treatment. The results showed that 11.9% of the applicants of driving license, had the experience of alcohol consumption in the past 6 months, 5.5% had the experience of drug and psychoactive abuse consumption, and 4.4% had the experience of medications addiction treatment. Logistic regression analysis showed that subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control, were the most influential predictors of intention drug abuse in the research team. Theory of Planned Behavior can be used for predicting for high-risk behaviors and implementing drug abuse prevention programs.

The present paper has studied the causes of crime commitment among youths living in margins of Hamadan City. Existing data indicate that most of youths committing various crimes are generally in marginal areas of city. These areas, which usually face more crimes, are hideouts of different types of illegal activities more than any other inner areas of city. The overall purpose of the present study is to determine whether needs and opportunities are involved in committing crimes or not. And if yes, to what extent each of these two factors (need, and opportunity) affect the incidence and prevention of a crime. Statistical population of this research is youths in the 18–29 age range residing in Hamadan City. The research's sampling has been conducted through available random sampling method and 380 of youths have been selected as sample volume, using Morgan Table. The method of data gathering is through questionnaire. Results revealed that there is a direct relationship between the independent variable of need and crime, and an inverse relationship between independent variable of opportunity and crime. That is, the more people's needs in various aspects of economic, social, and cultural, the more the probability of committing crimes by those people.

Security is one of the fundamental human needs, always; until it is not provided, one can not feel a favorable impression in a place which him located. Environmental security is one of the most important factors creating the desired quality of human life. Gradually, informal settlements have been created and spread mainly in border metropolitan and big cities outside the official program of urban development and automatically, in recent decades. The present study focused on physical security of Malayer City, in descriptive-analytical and reasoning method. Data gathered by library method (documents, maps, aerial photographs, etc.) and field method (observation, questionnaire, and interview), and analyzed by SPSS, Excel, and Arc GIS. Population size was Malayer City with 287,982 people, and the sample size was 381 families, base on Cochran's formula. Marginalization undoubtedly has a close relationship with crime. The findings suggest there is a close relationship between three regions of Sarjo, Taleghani, and Jafarabad with a sense of security and crime rise.

This paper explains the relationship between Citizenship Culture and tendency to commit crime; and seeks to measure the impact of cultural dimensions of citizenship on the willingness of citizens to commit crime. The present study is a descriptive correlational, and the population included all residents of province, form which 147 were selected by stratified sampling. The measurement instrument was a 28-items questionnaire, with the reliability of 0.87. Data obtained were analyzed by the t test, correlation test, and regression analysis; the results showed that the culture of citizenship in Borujen City is higher than average and the average responsibility component was higher than the other components. Average tendency to crime in the studied samples is lower than the average of all the samples. Citizenship culture variable has significant and negative relationship with tend to crime, and the higher citizenship culture would lead to the lower crime commitment. Social participation variable was most closely related with the tendency to commit crime.

The purpose of this research has been inspecting the negative effects of using satellite programs on Iranian families. The research method was descriptive–investigative. In this research, the negative effects of using satellite was derived through library studies, including thesis, books, articles, magazines, publications, and profiles related to the satellite’s pathology, as well as interviewing with 50 sociology professors and experts of social issues via a questionnaire of 22 questions; then it was supplied to the research’s sample population, which included 50 social issues experts and professors of the scientific-practical university of Hamadan in social and behavioral sciences field. These had been chosen selectively, based on their job background, authorship and researches they had done. The research’s reliablity was estimated by the coefficient of Cronbach’s Alpha which was equal to 81%. Chi-squared and Freedman tests were used in order to analyze the data. The results showed that the most important harms of using satellites are propagation of unveiling and bad veiling, promoting consumption and being away from the simple life, circulating street friend and love, increasing unlawful relations out of the family environment, fainting of religious beliefs, using alcoholic drinks, propagation of homogenous affairs, excessive use of cosmetics, early puberty of children , in order of the rate of the harms, from high to low.