The Factors Affecting Law Evasion among the People of Shahr-e-Qods, Iran

Abstract

Iranians, like all other societies, have always suffered from a lack of attention to the existing laws and social norms. Unfortunately, in our country, there is not only the desire to law evasion but also there is the behavior, and several scientific researches in this field indicate this fact. Most of polls and surveys studied the level of law evasion among Iranians concluded that there is not a tendency to observe the law in the society. Today's society in Iran is faced with social anarchy and detachment. Law evasion is an epidemic and a huge part of the country is affected. This epidemic is rooted in lack of discipline resulted from the expansion of poverty and social class gap. Because discipline is specific for those whose natural, social and cultural needs are provided (Najafi Tavana, 12: 2002) In contrast, discipline evasion is synonymous with law evasion leading to non-contentment of people to their rights, violating the others' rights, not doing duties, evasion of responsibility and reaching the goal by any means possible. Therefore, social life is really threatened in which multiple major factors are involved.