Citation

Hossain YAVARIBAFGHIAMIR, Reza ESMAEELIAHMAD. Police Human Dev. 2011; 8(35): 11-30.

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(Copyright © 2011, Iran Police PPB, Department of Applied Research Bureau)

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Abstract

Measuring social capital of different societies, the size of existing crimes in those societies can be used as an index for existence or absent of social capital. The results of many scientific researches, across the world, have indicated, the reduction of social capital among individual in society considered one of the most important reasons for crime increase in past decades. The concept of social capital has been analyzed in different levels. Fukuyama for instance considered social capital as the characteristics of nations or geographical regions and Putnam considered it as societies characteristics and Burt considered it as the characteristics of individual networks and Baker regarded it as organizations characteristics in interaction with other organizations. As the results of social capital, in each of these levels, is different, so social capital at society level is analyzed. In this article the attributive method, texts study; survey and well-established research in fields related to subject of this research were used. As the statistics show the trend of social capital reduction and consequently the increase of crime in our country is well shown. It is evident to use the positive results of social capital in society (here the emphasis is on the social capital role on crime reduction), first the theoretical basis of this concept should be studied and debated and after conceptualization the results and the effects of this concept were analyzed and finally it was noted how the positive results of social capital can be used