marjan negahi
Abstract
The selecting of Tehran as the capital of the Qajar dynasty, along with events such as the entrance of colonial countries, the movement towards modernity and World War II, faced the city with many social challenges, including increasing crime. The series of books "Social History of Tehran in the Thirteenth ...
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The selecting of Tehran as the capital of the Qajar dynasty, along with events such as the entrance of colonial countries, the movement towards modernity and World War II, faced the city with many social challenges, including increasing crime. The series of books "Social History of Tehran in the Thirteenth Century" written by Jafar Shahri is one of the relatively reliable first-hand sources for studying the social history of Tehran in the late Qajar and early Pahlavi periods, which addresses issues such as normal and delinquent behavior of ordinary people and their relations. Is. The main issue of this article is to examine the mentioned crimes from a criminological perspective. In this regard, the content of the series of book has been examined from the criminological theories point of view through content analysis and descriptive-analytical method. The main subject of the article is the study of the typology of crimes in Tehran in those days and the analysis of the contexts and factors of committing crimes from a criminological perspective. The results of this study indicate the existence of crimes such as abuse of opium drug, intoxication, theft, fraud, bribery and extortion, murder, prostitution and child abuse in Tehran at that time; Factors such as poverty, unemployment, migration and corruption of the government and administrative system have been effective in the emergence and continuation of such crimes.
