An Analysis on the Relationship Between Religious Identity and the Prevention of Crime

The present study aims to examine the relationship between religious identity and youth crime prevention on Isfahan University students. Method of research was descriptive of correlation and with self-reporting. All of the students of Isfahan University formed the number of statistical community (N= 11241) and just 731 individuals were selected (n=371) as the random example. The tools of researcher for collecting information on the religious identity was based on the religious identity components Glock and stark; in the case of perpetration of crime, it was based on the self-reporting which was confirmed by five scholars and its validity and subject experts with religious identity for cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.83 questionnaire and the questionnaire was calculated 0.85. In order to analyze the data from the descriptive statistics include frequency, percentage and mean and statistical inference including Pearson, factor analysis of variance analysis and multiple regression test was used. The findings showed that between religious identity and committing crimes (r =-0.402) there is a significant relationship. As well as between religious identity i.e. the ritual dimension, experimental, and consequence dimensions with committing crimes to arrange with the coefficient (r =-0.318), (r =-0.284), (r =-0.403) and (r =-0.375) there was a significant relationship. The result of step by step regression coefficient was also indicated in the first step and the next step after the second ritual faith is a crime rate Predictor. The findings also showed that the proportion of demographic factors in committing crimes among men is more than among women. This is while the average women in religious identity more than men to acquire.