Reviewing the Relationship between Suburbanization 61 and Crime, and Offering Preventive Approaches

The present research aims at reviewing the relationship between urbanization and committing crime, and recommending preventive approaches in this regard. As far as objective is concerned, the research is of applied type, and data is gathered through survey. Data gathered through conducting interviews and using self-made questionnaire. Validity of the questionnaire was confirmed through using Content-wise approach and benefitting from management and law professors' views .Cronbach's alpha coefficient (α=0.89) was used for calculating the questionnaire's validity. SPSS and single-sample T test were used for analyzing the data. N=235 including households living in the suburb of Isfahan, selected by using Cochran formula. While interviewing them, the questionnaires were distributed among them. The research findings indicated that there is significant relationship between family income, immigration, parents' education level; and committing crime. The results of the research have been in line with theories on social classification, and particularly deprivation theory, as well as pressure theory, arguing that individuals have severe tendency toward committing crime due to economic problems and shortage of income.