جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « petty thefts » در نشریات گروه « علوم اجتماعی »

One type of criminal theft is petty theft, in which thieves in the capacity of measuring the cost-benefit of the crime, are led to commit it by obtaining financial benefit in the fastest possible time and with minimal risk. Today, petty theft has become a critical phenomenon in the country and its statistics are increasing. In this way, the objective of this work is to investigate the social factors effective in committing petty thefts in Mazandaran province.

This work is conducted via qualitative design and systematic grounded theory. The participants included all petty thieves imprisoned in Tonekabon, Amol, and Sari prisons who met the criteria for this article. Using targeted and available sampling until reaching theoretical saturation, the interviews were analyzed with 15 male prisoners. Then, based on the findings, the conceptual model of the underlying crime factors is determined.

According to the findings of the research, the causal conditions for committing crimes are: "addiction to drugs and their continuous usage" and "long-term and continuous association with abnormal and delinquent friends". Intervening factors in committing crimes include "unfavorable family structure", "inappropriate parenting methods", "low social status of family" and "deterioration of the individual's bond with society". The background conditions of the crime include "life in the prison environment", "poverty and poor economic status", "criminal label", "unemployment" and "low risk of petty theft and ease of selling stolen property". The response or strategy of criminals in dealing with these conditions is "adopting a criminal lifestyle". Finally, the consequences of crimes are: "individual, family and social consequences".

The results of the research indicate that social factors play a significant role in the occurrence of petty theft and identifying these factors facilitates the prevention of the mentioned criminal phenomenon.

Theft is a phenomenon that threatens people's financial and life security. The aim of this study was to investigate the effective law enforcement factors on petty thefts in Mashhad and to provide new ways to combat it.

In terms of its objectives the present study is of an applied research type which has been conducted using survey-analytical method. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect the data. The statistical population of this study includes all experts and officials of the Department of Prevention, Detection and Combating petty thefts with a history of more than 5 years of employment in the Criminal Investigation Police and Sheriff's Office of the City of Mashhad. The sample size was calculated as 96. After plugging the data into the SPSS software, Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the reliability test in this study was obtained as 0.96.

According to the findings of the index of law enforcement factors affecting petty theft, the average of the above index is 4.48, which indicates that the law enforcement factors affecting petty theft are higher than average. According to the coefficient of determination and effect, it can be said that four factors of the lack of fixed passes with beta weight of 0.241, the presence of neighborhood guard with beta weight of 0.177, training of law enforcement agents with beta weight of 0.149, the use of new technologies with beta weights of 0.142 are the most effective law enforcement factors on petty theft, respectively, and have more decisive effect.

In the study area, the results show that paying attention to issues such as having fixed passes, constant presence of neighborhood guards, training of law enforcement agents and the use of new technologies can have a significant impact on reducing petty thefts.

Everyday increasing petty thefts makes the necessity of identifying individual and social features of thieves inevitable. Therefore the present research deals with the study of individual and social features of these kinds of petty thieves. This research is of applied studies type and its intended audience is petty thieves’ case files. To collect the required data and information, case files, credible documents and sources pertaining 380 petty thieves in the Theft Office of Ilam Criminal Investigation Department, Police 110, police stations of different townships of Ilam were used. The statistical methods used in this research include “descriptive statistics” which were described through social sciences software package. Findings resulted from describing the status of petty thieves in Ilam indicate that the absolute majority (%99.2) of petty thieves in Ilam Province have been men. %60.8 of them has been between 21-31 years old. %93.9 of the arrested petty thieves has been unemployed. The study of the thieves based on the theft tools show that %25 of them has been arrested on charges of inside-vehicle thefts. %13.7 of the thieves has been arrested on charges of stealing incomplete construction tools, %12.9 on charges of stealing power cables and wires, %12.6 on charges of cattle theft. %66.8 of the arrested thieves had different criminal records in the Judiciary System. %54.5 of the thieves were addicts, %99.5 were physically healthy.