Criminological study of the role of family and its structure on juvenile delinquency of Isfahan Correctional Center

Review:The family, as the first social unit and the smallest, is the only social structure with continuity and harmony that has existed for a long time in human life and fulfills the most important vital human needs and establishes its social relations. The structure of the family and the conditions that govern it have an undeniable impact on the behavior and future of children and their delinquency. this study was conducted, with the aim of investigating the effect of family role on juvenile delinquency of Isfahan Education Reform Center and with descriptive survey-analytical correlation research method (descriptive and inferential statistics) using SPSS software with three hypotheses, family structure (single parent , Economic, Population and immigration), parental characteristics (delinquency, addiction and behavior) and family ecology. The results show that there is a significant relationship between family structure of single parent type with paternal death, parental characteristics and family ecology. .