Study the effective factors influencing robbery in delinquent juveniles of reformation and pedagogy centre in Sanandaj city

The main aim of this study was to investigate the effective factors influencing robbery in delinquent juveniles of reformation and pedagogy centre in Sanandaj city. Various perspectives about social deviance such as family structure theory, family versatility and personality growth, Durkheim’s anomy theory, Groupic support theory, labeling theory, exchange theory were reviewed and part of them is used to build theoretical framework and hypothesis. Research population was delinquent juveniles of reformation and pedagogy centre in Sanandaj city and students of 4 guidance and high schools in this city. The population of delinquent juveniles was 40 thus all of them were selected as study sample. The means of gathering data was questionnaire and we examined hypothesis with t test for mean difference by SPSS software. Results showed that delinquent juveniles were significantly differing from comparison sample (students) in socio-economic status, Groupic support family structure and negative labeling. There was not any significant difference between study groups in influence of friends and peer groups.