Sociological Analysis of Cultural Poverty in the Repetition of Social Deviations and Return to Prison in Women Prisoners (Central Women's Repentance Center of Arak City in 2019)

Subject Areas : Journal of Iranian Social Development Studies

Houra Keykhosravi ¹ , Alireza Kaldi ² , Hossein Agajani Mersa' ³

1 - PhD Student in Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, Branch Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Professor of Sociology, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2021-02-09 Accepted : 2021-02-09 Published : 2021-02-19

Keywords: Cultural poverty, Deviation, Returning, Prison, women,

Abstract :

Developing kinds of moral and behavioral deviations, which are caused by changes in social, cultural, familial, political and religious structure, provides the needs of committing crime in society. The aim of this research, is analyzing the backgrounds of committing crime, strategies and their consequences, by women prisoners in central prison of Arak. For this purpose, using the grounded theory method and the technique of semi-structured interview, 14 women with the background of returning to prison, were interviewed deeply through purposeful sampling. After 10th interview, conceptual saturation was reached. The interview continued up to 14th person for peace of mind. The data categorized using Straus and Corbin paradigm model and then, its paradigm model was drawn. The results of research showed that being bait and deceived, disagreement between couples, emotional divorce and unsuccessful marriage, are some reasons of deviation in this women. Social deviations of father, differential companion, parents' addiction and contrary, lack of emotion, being victim of rape and domestic violence, are effective factors of this deviation that follows strategies such as social deviation, inappropriate marriage, theft, divorce and out of custom relations. Some of consequences of these strategies are family disintegration, ethical and social anomalies and finally prison. Results showed that cultural poverty is the main factor of women's tendency to committing crime, being prisoned and repeating the same crimes and returning to prison.

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