The Effect of the Press on Violence and Feeling Insecure

Fear of crime and feeling insecure as e result, is one of social problems in todays societies. The press can play a vital role in producing such a feeling. This paper is therefore, planned to analyze the effect of the press on violence and feeling insecure in the community by first looking at the current literature and then by a survey which tries to evaluate the effect of four variants including the level of the knowledge, sex, education in three different towns (Tehran, Mashhad, Qom) on people. This was carried out in1393 by distributing 180 questionnaires amongst people in the three mentioned towns. The data gathered was analyzed by P-Value and Chi-squared test. The result shows that some of the variants have been effective on feeling insecure and violence, but the others did not have any effect on such a feeling of people studied.