Sociological analysis on cultural poverty in repeating social deviations and jailed women's return to prison (women's central penitentiary, Arak, 2019)

Subject Areas : Journal of Iranian Social Development Studies

Houra kaykhosravi ¹ , Alireza Kaldi ² , Hosain Akhajani ³ , Mehrdad Navabakhsh ⁴

1 - Visiting Professor at Shahid Bahonar Teacher Training University and Zaynab Kobra
2 - Professor of University of Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch
4 - Professor of Sociology, Department of Science and Research, Tehran, Islamic Azad University

Received: 2019-01-30 Accepted : 2021-01-05 Published : 2007-12-22

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