Analysis of Social Damages Caused by Slums of Ahvaz Metropolitan

Abstract

The sense of insecurity in a neighborhood is not only caused by violent crimes but also anomalies and disruptive behaviors like drug addiction, vagrancy, beggary and theft, not only are main factors for public fear and sense of insecurity, but also in their own turns, definitely provide the grounds for major expanse of crimes, just like if a window in a building was shattered and left like that, the whole building will soon fall into pieces. In order to prevent the fall of the society, at the time of the break of the first window, the disrupted must be punished immediately. The subject of slums is one of the urban issues that have been in the attention of law, justice and criminology experts because of the fact that slums are grounds for committing crimes. The fact that more crimes are committed in slums is unanimously accepted and statistics from cases in the justice department are also witnesses to this notion. In this study, the goal of the researcher is to show the effects of living in slums on the occurrence of social damages such as drug addiction. The method of the research was bibliotheca. In this article, an image of slumming, and then, the crimes that are committed in these areas will be thoroughly analyzed.