The Study of the Relationship between House Architecture and Crime: A Case Study in Shahre-Kord, Iran

Abstract

The issue of crime prevention is one of the main human concerns throughout history. Different methods have been applied to reach this goal including social, penal and legal conditional prevention. Dwelling (at the micro-scale) which is considered as the physical dimension of living in the social environment is so important as the principal location for survival of human and society and in this study, we tried to identify and study the relationship between the architecture of house and crime by collecting library information such as study of books, and articles and available resources relevant to the topic. The statistical population of this research included all the criminals in the Shahre-kord province and the sample population were 135 criminals from 2012/06/04 to 2012/06/19 in police stations and all the military authorities in Shahre-kord province. The criminals filled the questionnaire and they were analyzed. The research method was survey and by using descriptive statistics, the correlation between two variables was investigated. The result of Gama Test about the architecture of dwelling and crime shows that the kind of dwelling architecture is different with regard to crime. From the statistical point of view, the relationship is significant (s=0/05). Thus, the hypothesis that there is a significant difference between architecture of people's dwelling with regard to crime was confirmed.