Citizens in all societies have duties and rights that should be performed and respected by the members of those societies and the government. Ensuring the observance of these rights is among the most important missions of the governments, and while identifying these rights it must utilize efficient and transparent laws, and guarantee taking measures to prevent and protect them in case of violation and non-observance of the rights. Chief among these rights is the financial right, so the present article aims at investigating the role of the government in providing financial security to citizens.

The research is of descriptive-analytical type and the method of gathering information in this research is documentary-jurisprudential analysis.

The findings of this study indicate that although it may seem that the government is looking for its own interests, ignoring and weakening this right leads to insecurity, corruption and many crimes and social problems.The result achieved from the article shows that in the Iranian law, the legislator, while being inspired by Islamic and jurisprudential rules and protecting financial rights, enjoys a high position in it. However, while recognizing this right in the constitution and related laws, the legislator has not been able to fully ensure their observance for the citizens .In addition, giving preference to public interests, imposes many duties and restrictions on the citizens’ individual rights.

Nowadays, the fear of crime and lack of societal security feeling is an issue that has challenged the issue of security in cities and therefore has been the center of attention of social sciences and criminology researchers. Fear of crime and being victimized refers to concern of  persons  including himself/herself, family members, relatives, neighbors and networks to become a victim by vagrants, drug addicts, thieves, kidnappers, street gangs, profiteers, criminal groups and immoral people who may threaten and victimize them or one of their relatives. Based on this, the present research is aimed at sociological investigation of the fear of crime in the social structure and the factors affecting it.

The research implementation mechanism was conducted using the questionnaire technique along with interviewing the 18 + citizens in the provincial capitals of the country along with subordinate cities (428 small towns and 11 main police stations of Greater Tehran). The research samples were 15,778 people who were selected using multi-stage cluster sampling method and in a systematic and simple random manner.

The results of the findings show that the most important crimes and social harms in the province are: unemployment, divorce, industrial drugs addiction, disputes and family disorders; and the incidence rate of crimes from the point of view of women is more than that of men. And there is a significant relationship between the performance of the police and the trust and participation of citizens and the degree of security feeling and success of the police. It means that the higher the citizens' satisfaction level with the police performance, the higher will be the citizens' trust in police, and citizens’ collaboration level with the police increase, and will lead to an increase in the security feeling at the community level and the success of the police.

Security is one of the basic human needs and is of high importance in Islam, so that security and health are considered two invisible blessings that cannot be felt as long as they are available. The Islamic Republic of Iran, as a country that seeks to implement the teachings of Islam in the social and political structure, while using religious teachings should  have up-to-date knowledge to create and maintain security in the country. One of the opportunities available in the Islamic Republic of Iran is the presence of a political leader who is a comprehensive mujtahid and a religious authority. By using the statements of the Supreme Leader of the revolution and analyzing its content, a new perspective on security could be obtained, which is also consistent with religious teachings. The present research was conducted aimed at investigating the components and indicators of security from the Supreme Leader’s perspective.

Using the library method, about 77 statements of the Supreme Leader from 1989 to 2015 have been extracted focusing on the keyword “security” and analyzed with the qualitative content analysis method. The primary achievement of the research was re-examined using the research literature, and finally redefined using the opinion of experts.

Following the analysis of the data, extraction of concepts and benefitting from the experts’ theory on the issue of security, 6 components and 47 indicators were extracted.As a result, the indicators and components obtained in the dimension of security were classified into groups with the aim of better mental understanding and finally depicted in the form of a symbol.

Security in the society is considered one of the most important indicators of human and social development, which includes all aspects and dimensions of human life and guarantees his/her life and survival, and is the most central need and demand of every human society to enjoy a healthy life. Lack of security and emergence of any disturbance in it has brought about harmful and perhaps irreparable consequences, and challenges the development plans. The present research aims at analyzing the factors impacting the security of rural settlements in Jalegh and Kouhak: two towns of Saravan city.

The main research method will be a combination of descriptive-analytical methods based on library, documentary and field studies using articles and questionnaires. The statistical population of the present research is two towns in Saravan:  Jalegh and Kouhak where the villagers are engaged in activities on the borders of Jalegh and Kouhak. The method of data analysis is the use of statistical tests and correlation tests.

The results showed that the social, economic and environmental dimensions in the studied sample are effective and play a role in the security of rural settlements in Jalegh and Kouhak in Saravan. In this regard, economic (beta coefficient: 0.246), social (beta coefficient: 0.397) and environmental (beta coefficient: 0.205) dimensions were all obtained at a significance level of p≤0.01. The results of fuzzy TOPSIS showed that the villages of Jalegh and Kouhak are not at a balanced level in terms of security, so it could be argued with 99% confidence that the economic, social and environmental dimensions have a positive and significant role and impact on security. The rural settlements are in Jalegh and Kouhk towns in Saravan city, and there was a positive and significant correlation between the population of rural settlements and their distance to the border, with the security of rural settlements. In other words, the higher the population of rural settlements, the higher the sense of security among the residents.

Crime prevention, and the necessity of rehabilitating criminals and preventing them from becoming professional criminals, necessitates adherence to a collaborative criminal policy in order to secure the religious and customary values of the society against norm-breaking in the form of crime and delinquency. One of the factors leading to recommitment of crime and one of the obstacles ahead of rehabilitation of the first-time offenders is that the society still considers them criminals even after enduring punishment. “Basij”, as a comprehensive and NGO, should manage to play a role in eliminating and abrogating this factor.

The present research conducted by “Basij”, has investigated one of the components of the collaborative criminal policy in the prevention of recidivism - abrogating the secondary label of criminals. Following selection of the sample population, designing the questionnaire and ensuring its validity with field research and conducting survey and  arranging interviews with 300 people from the random statistical population and taking into consideration the many variables: Individuals’ gender, record of membership in “Basij”, level of education, type of employment, age range and religious level; and  via  conducting statistical analysis using SPSS, the present research has been seeking to answer the question: “Do registered criminals  who have endured punishment succeed in gaining trust and reputation from the society through becoming an active member of the “Basij” organization?”. In other words, the main theme of the present research is measuring the capacity of “Basij” in changing society's attitude towards these people.

The result of this research indicates that based on the current mentality of the target society of this research towards “Basij”, this body does not have the ability to rub off the label from penitent criminals, it is suggested that by focusing on the elements in question in this research, the mental structure of the society towards “Basij” be analyzed.

  Security is among the basic human needs, and once public security is deployed; peace, human flourishing, the emergence of talents and creativity will be achieved. One of the social issues that most communities and especially border provinces are involved in is arms trafficking and, accordingly, the state of public security. The main purpose of the present study is to investigate the impacts of arms trafficking on the public security of Kermanshah province.

The present study was conducted using a combined (quantitative-qualitative) method. The survey method was used in the quantitative part and the grounded theory method was used in the qualitative part. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire in the quantitative part and a semi-structured and in-depth interview in the qualitative part. For the qualitative part, four groups of participants: military and law enforcement elites, university professors, arms traffickers, as well as ordinary people who had expertise in this field using a targeted method and in the quantitative part using SPSS Sample Power, and 540 people from  among people in the entire province, were investigated using  random strata method. The findings were analyzed using two soft wares: SPSS and AMOS.

  The research findings show that there is a significant and inverse relationship between arms trafficking and public security. This influence is negative for all dimensions of security and shows a reverse influence on it. In this sense, the more the prevalence of arms trafficking in the province, the weaker the public security status. The findings of the regression model in Imus show that the chi- square value as a bad fit index is 5808.091. The RMSEA index, represents the average residual between the correlation-covariance observed from the sample and the expected estimate of the model for the population, and indicates the difference between the coefficients of the sample and the population. In this model, the goodness-of-fit index (CFI) of 0.077 indicates a good match between the model and the data. This index is also based on the correlation between the variables in the model and is 0.668.  As much as the actual model size gets closer to a saturated model, the corrected goodness-of-fit index (PCFI) penalizes it. Values of 0.50 and above are acceptable. The results of this index are 0.24, which can be concluded that the collected data largely supports the measurement and structural model. It could be inferred that the average arms trafficking in the province is relatively higher than expected by the society; on the other hand, the level of public security in the province is higher than the society's expectations. Of course, these results for dimensions such as environment, societal security, and psychological security are lower than expected by society.

The general purpose of the present research is to assess societal security and identify the level of vulnerability in the informal settlement of the “Koshtargah”.

The present research is of descriptive-analytical type and is of applied nature. The information has been collected in two ways: documents and field. In this research, societal security is considered as an independent variable, while economic, social, environmental and physical, cultural and political dimensions are considered as dependent variables. The statistical population of this research is the residents of “Koshtargah” neighborhood. According to the statistics released by “Statistics Center”; 15,000 people lived in the neighborhood in 2016. The sample size is based on Cochran's formula and 374 people are randomly selected. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts, and the reliability of the questionnaire was also confirmed using Cronbach's alpha test with a coefficient of 0.706. Data analysis has been done quantitatively and qualitatively. Single-sample t-test, Friedman, Spearman's correlation and Kriging method were used to evaluate the data.

The results show that according to the location data, the damage rate in the middle part of the neighborhood is higher than other parts of the neighborhood. Given the analysis of questionnaire data, the economic dimension with an average of 2.67 is in an undesirable situation compared to other dimensions. According to the results of Spearman's correlation test; economic, social, environmental and physical, cultural and political dimensions have a significant and direct relationship with societal security. Based on the results of the present research, societal security in “Koshtargah” neighborhood is at an average level. According to the results of the Friedman test, the economic dimension ranks last among other dimensions that require the urban management to pay more attention to it.