Abstract:
Social capital, due to its content lies in the social damage's realm. Considering the mutual effects therein, the objective here is to assess the correlation between social capital with identifying the correlation between social capital and crimes among convicted young prisoners in Greater Tehran prison. The method adopted in this study is of survey type by applying a random sample of 190 prisoners. To analyze the data, two-dimensional tables and Pearson Correlation Coefficient are applied. It is revealed that there exists a statistically significant correlation between social capital and youth crime rate, indicating that the higher the social capital level, the lower the crime rate among the youth. The young who commit crimes are grown in social conditions with low social capital. Hence, by planning and capitalizing social capital, the misdemeanor and crime rate of the subjects here would be decreased.
Machine summary:
With respect to this viewpoint and by considering the main hypothesis of this study, the correlation between social capital and youth crime rate is assessed.
Purposeful Organization Colman believes that social capital acts like a resource, because it is accompanied with expectation exchange and exceeds the individual level to engage in more expanded networks, the relations of which is managed and guided by high trust and common values.
He considers social capital as a set of concepts like trust, norms and networks which generate optimized relation and optimal participation in a society which eventually provides the mutual resources thereof.
05); hence, the null hypothesis concerning the lack of correlation is rejected and the study hypothesis is accepted, that is, there exists a significant correlation between communications and social participation with crime rate.
The main hypothesis in this study is concerned with assessing the correlation between social capital and crime rate among the youth, whereby considering the distance of measurement level of these two variables, the Pearson test is applied and the results are tabulated in Table 5.
The second hypothesis concerning the correlation between communications and social participation with youth crime rate is accepted through a statistical test.
To assess the social capital rate, the connection and membership in civil networks, communications, social participation, social trust, cooperation norms and information exchange indexes are applied.
The Pearson coefficient test results indicate that in general, the correlation between social capital and crime rate among youth in Greater Tehran Prison within 18-30 age range is significant.