Relationship Between Social Safety and Attitude Toward Criminal Behaviors Among Male High School Students

Nowadays the people’s lives are so widely merged with the community they are parts of that turns social safety to one of the basic requirements of growth and self-efflorescence. The lack of social safety is a result of committing the crimes and misdemeanor in any community which -in a vicious cycle- can lead to more crimes. However، the attitude toward a behavior is of the main factors influencing doing or quitting it. The present paper addresses the relationship between social safety and the attitude toward a criminal behaviors in male high school students. The present study has been carried out through a quantitative survey and the sampling method has been cluster random sampling. It was carried out on 232 male high school students of Tehran education region 7. Chi-square and spearman tests were used to report the results of the present study. There were no significant relationship between the social safety and attitude toward criminal behaviors. But there were a significant relationship between police performance and negative attitude toward criminal behaviors. Not only were there a significant relationship between age participations and negative attitude toward criminal behaviors، but also there were a significant relationship between age participations and police performance. Finding no significant relationship between the social safety and attitude toward a criminal behaviors is in conflict with theories in this area. It seems conducting this research with other groups and resolving limitations of this enquiry is essential to study the relationship between social safety and attitude toward a criminal behaviors.