Investigating the Relationship Between Economic Development and Crime in Iran

Effects of development on crime based on the community structure changes. in this Paper، the impact of development on crime rate was examined in Iran and the method used for it was Generalized Moments Model in the Period of 1984-2006. Among the different components for expressing the development، components that drew more attention in contemporary experimental literature have been used including literacy level، economic growth rate، unemployment، Gini coefficient and capital share of production. On the basis of the different types and the variety of crimes and specifically financial crimes، statistics of closed cases in courts regarding embezzlement، bribery، forgery، theft، issuing bounced cheques and property vandalization have been used for crime index. the results of this Paoer show that the cultural index of development (population literacy rate) has a positive and meaningful effect on to the crime rate. Failure toachieve social development (unemployment and Gini coefficient) has a positive and meaningful effect on to the crime rate. the economic index of development (gross domestic product «GDP» growth rate) has a negative and meaningful effect on to the crime rate.