role of religiosity in preventing the delinquency of tehranian juvenile

ABSTRACT

The purpose of the present research has been to determine the role of religiosity in preventing juvenile delinquency [robbery] in Tehran on the basis of religiosity perspective theoretical and social integration, and the aim has been to provide the sociological analysis of religiosity as solution for confronting to juvenile delinquency. The research method is survey and a kind of causal- comparative. In tense of time, it is cross- sectional and in tense of intensive it is a kind of extensive the data, and have been collected through questionnaire. The results of this study shows that there is a significiant difference between religiousity and delinquency rate of typical [non delinquent] and confined [delinquent] juvenile group in significance of% 95. The theoretical finding of the research showed that although it is possible to describe the seperated and direct relalation between each one of independent variables [religious aspect] and the dependent variable [the rate of delinquency], based on religiousity and social integration theories, but the result of multi variable analysis shows, only consequentive aspect of religiousituy has a direct effect on delinquency and it proved to have the greatest share in explaining the preventing juvenile delinquency