فصلنامه پژوهش های دانش انتظامی
سال شانزدهم شماره 2 (پیاپی 62، تابستان 1393)

Citizens’ trust in the police arises from several factors among which the police performance in providing the community’s security and the police social dignity among the citizens are of particular importance. This paper examines the relationship between citizens’ attitudes toward police dignity and also security provision by police, and degree of trust in police. This study is of a survey research type and the data were collected using questionnaires and interviews. The reliability and validity of research tools were approved using Cronbach alpha coefficient (maintaining social security by the police a=0.775, attitude towards police social dignity a=0.872, trust in police a=0.908). The statistical population of the study includes the working population (15-65 years old) of Kashan in 2012. The sample size was set to 700 persons using Cochran formula. The data were analyzed by SPSS using two-way ANOVA and Spearman correlation coefficient.Findings and The findings of the study showed the relationship between citizens’ attitudes towards security provision by police, and police dignity in society with the degree of trust in police (0.615 and 0.576, respectively) in a 99% level of confidence. The findings of two-way ANOVA showed that 58 % of the dependent variable’s variance is explained by the effects of the variables of attitudes towards police social dignity and maintaining security by the police.

Despite the importance of explaining philosophy and addressing jurisprudent principals of many legal and criminal issues in the expanding and accepting these issues in Iran legislation, usually little research has been done in this area, and even in Islamic jurisprudence less attention has been paid to express philosophical precepts of the provisions; in this vein, considering a comprehensive research on the jurisprudent principals of supervising and monitoring offenders has not been conducted and previous scattered studies addressed some instances of monitoring and initial prevention of delinquency. On the other hand, the understanding of the principles and objectives of monitoring and performance necessities by its reactors, that is, the family, society and government forces, particularly the police, have not been well established. This study is conducted to evaluate the jurisprudent principals of supervising dangerous offenders. The required data were collected and analyzed using library studies of interpretive, jurisprudence, law, criminology books and specialized journals.Findings and The research findings showed that the jurisprudent principals of supervising offenders are based on three foundations: 1) the family-centered monitoring and control; 2) the community-based monitoring and control; 3) the rule-based monitoring and control. Moreover, in jurisprudent principals, the evidence that indicates monitoring dangerous offenders in modern sense is very rare. However, in the field of monitoring offenders in general, legal evidence can be obtained from the principles of monitoring offenders that is not different from monitoring dangerous criminals in terms of performance and purposes.

children are the most valuable resources of a country and the most precious national resource, i.e., human force. Hence, more thoughtful investments on children’s life development are equal with an increase in achieving a rapid sustainable development. Establishing childrens’ police is one of the strategies that has been implemented in most countries for dealing with child abusement as a serious threat to the health of children. This study was conducted aiming to identify and compare the opinions of police experts and current custodians of child abusement about children’s police. In terms of its objective, this study is of an applied research type and in terms of methodology it is a descriptive-survey research. The statistical population of the study includes 110 senior experts and police managers and Welfare Organization. 96 individuals were selected using Cochran Formula. The obtained data were analyzed using the mean of one-population test. Findings and The results showed that there are significant differences between the opinions of the country’s current custodians of child abusement, i.e., welfare and law enforcement agencies, in the field of children and juveniles’ police duties.

the useful and effective presense of youngesters in military service and their readiness for defending the country require the provision of some conditions that are pleasant for them. Considering this neccessity, this paper investigates the military service pleasant-making factors and the degree of soldiers’ enjoyment from those factors. In terms of its objective, this study is of an applied research type and in terms of data collection procedure it is a survey research. The statistical population of this study consisted of soldiers passing military service in Tehran. 96 soldiers who were serving in various units of Pollice department in Tehran (2012) were selected using proportional sampling method. The data were obtained Carl Shosler Standard Job Satisfaction questionnaire (SRA). To measure the reliability, the Cronbach alpha level (0.86) was employed. Findings and the results indicated that there was a significant gap between the importance of each pleasant-making factors and the degree of soldiers enjoyment from them. Also, the mean for the degree of I.R.I Police soldiers enjoyment for pleasant-making facors was less than that of Army Corps soldiers.

Due to creating effective partnerships among staffs in organization, the importance of trust is obvious to anyone. On the other hand, organizational commitment would lead to both conducting quality work and competitive advantage for the organizations involved. In this study, the relationship between trust and organizational commitment in police stations’ staffs in Tehran Police Command has been investigated. In terms of its objective, this study is of an applied research type and in terms of methodology it is a descriptive-survey research. The statistical population of the study includes police stations’ staffs in Tehran Police Command. 186 individuals were selected as the sample size using Cochran formula. The sample was selected using stratified random sampling method from different ranks. The data were obtained using reliable and valid questionnaires (Cronbach alpha 0.845 and 0.781) and then analyzed by SPSS software using Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, analysis of variance, Friedman and Pearson correlation coefficients.Findings and The results showed that there were significant correlations between confidence indicator variables (attention, fairness, stability, competence, authority and participation except openness) and dimensions of commitment (affective, continuous and normative) among the staffs. The results also indicated that the affective commitment, continuance commitment, and normative commitment were in undesirable, moderate, and desirable levels, respectively.

Deviance, distort behavior, and crime has as long history as human history, and societies have always thought of dealing with crime and deviance. Elements of the crime can be divided into two categories: internal and external. Internal factors include individual factors such as age and psychological factors such as fear. The external crime-making factors also include environmental factors such as the geographical and social factors, such as poverty. The purpose of this study was to examine the external factors influencing the incidence of crime in the province of Ardabil. In terms of its objective, this study is of an applied research type and in terms of methodology it is a descriptive-survey research. The statistical population of this study includes two groups of security officials and delinquents of Ardabil Province. 38 persons from the first group and 18 persons from the second group were selected as the sample population of the study using cluster sampling method. The data were collected using an open questionnaire and were analyzed using t-test. Findings and The results indicated that there was not significant difference between the two groups’ ideas about the effective external factors on crime occurrence in Ardabil (including financial, educational, and geographical factors). However, with respect to the influence of cultural factors on the occurrence of crime, there was a significant difference between the views of these two groups.

Women’s effective roles and capabilities in the success of developing governments in various fields including population growth control, unemployment, etc. in recent decades have urged the researchers to pay attention to them. On the other hand, there is the fact that women are the vulnerable groups of society that social and economic developments strongly influence them. This study deals with the examination of the effects of social and economic developments on women-headed households. This study is of a survey research type. The statistical population of the study included 500 senior experts of Office of Labor and Social Welfare and its corresponding sample size was 216 individuals. The data were obtained using a reseracher-made questionnaire that had an acceptable validity and reliability coefficient (0.86 and 0.90) and then they were analyzed by t-test. Findings and the results indicated that the social and economic factors had a reverse effect on social and economic functions of women-headed households, meaning that any kind of change in the factors related to social and economic development would negatively affect the social and economic functions of women-headed households.