Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Kiyfarī (Dec 2014)
Aspects of Crime-proneness with regard to the Policy of Mehr Housing
Abstract
Crime-proneness aspects of the policy made by ninth-government due to cheap housing for poor groups of people in society, namely Mehr Housing, are considerable from two perspectives: ecological and sociological. From the ecological perspective, Mehr Housing is exposed to high risk of crime-proneness including factors such as high population density, segregation and causing the immigration of people. From the sociological perspective, it also includes factors such as conflict of cultures, anomy and causing the decline of social capital (such as sense of security, trust and cohesion of residents). These factors which seem have been driven by precipitance and non-comprehensive study in housing issues, do not draw a desirable horizon for society housing health condition. Therefore, it is worthy of attention to take some measures by the administrators in order to prevent such situations. This article suggests some solutions to get out of crime-proneness situations, by analyzing ecological and sociological causes of the crime and conforming them to the Mehr Housing policy. These solutions are such as fidelity to the primary aims of Mehr Housing policy through the monitoring the process of the implement of laws and regulations which were enacted for transferring Mehr Housing and also imposing some sanctions dealing with delinquents which can help to the reduction of cases like immigration of people to the metropolises and subsequently decline of conflict of cultures and obscurity of persons and finally reduction of crimes and deviations. Moreover, by changing the half-made constructions without any applicants to the necessary facilities and promoting the qualitative aspects, it will be possible to be hopeful about the rate increase of social capital - as an essential bascule for social prevention of crime- in Mehr Housing.
