The Role of Urban Spaces in Creating Abnormal Behavior Patterns with Emphasis on Crime Prevention Factor Study area: Chahar Bagh neighborhood of Samen district of Mashhad

Authors

1 Professor of Law at Binalood Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad

2 Associate Professor of Geography, University of Tehran

3 Tehran University Professor of geography and urban planning.

4 University professor

Abstract

Urban spaces are one of the most influential factors in guiding individuals' individual and social behavior patterns. All human behavior takes place in certain spaces that constitute the basis of behavior. Therefore, by improving the quality of the environment, some abnormal behaviors can be prevented. Creating a defensive environment by combining both physical and psychological aspects simultaneously forms the essence of the concept of crime prevention through environmental design. Some places provide more opportunity for crime due to the specific physical structure, type of activity and characteristics of its inhabitants. The overall purpose of this research is to obtain a model of urban planning and design in order to prevent the creation of abnormal behavior patterns especially crime in Chahar Bagh neighborhood of Mashhad. Chahar Bagh neighborhood is one of the oldest neighborhoods of primary texture around the holy shrine of Razavi which has an inappropriate physical structure and mass incidence in this neighborhood is very high. The research method in this article is a descriptive-analytic one which has been collected using library and field method, data and required information. Citizens' views and views were also collected through questionnaire, interview and observation tools and then inferential data analysis was performed using nonparametric statistical methods such as t-test and structural equations. According to the population of 1395 in this area which is 13849 people and with the help of Cochran sample size formula 381 questionnaires were surveyed in this area. The results of this study show that various factors such as physical and environmental mixing in urban areas and poor texture quality have an important role on mass occurrence. That improper, unformed, irregular bodies add to the crime

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