Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Investigating the Mutual Influence of the Three Components—Age, Belief, and Attachment—on the Subculture of Violence and Peer Relations among Adolescents and Young Adults (Case Study: Young Wrestlers in Mashhad County)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Sina Mahdavi Damghani 1
Seyed Mohammadjavad Sadati 2
Abdolreza Javan Jafari 3
1 MA. Student in, Department of Criminal and Criminology Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Ferdowsi university Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
2 Assistant Prof, Department of Criminal and Criminology Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Ferdowsi university Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
3 Associate Prof, Department of Criminal and Criminology Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Ferdowsi University Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
10.22034/jclc.2023.366864.1763
Abstract
Nowadays, the high rate of participation of teenagers and young people in committing crimes, especially violent crimes, is a matter of great concern and deserves special attention from governments. It is obvious that the components of the cultural situation and the group of companions (friends) of people are very effective factors in the level of their inclinations towards committing various acts. The main purpose of the present study is to investigate the effect of the triple components of age, attachment to parents and belief in the law on the state of subculture of violence and violence of peers among teenage and young wrestlers in Mashhad city. Based on the results of the statistical analysis carried out in the research, it should be acknowledged: there is a significant and direct relationship between age variable and variables in subculture of violence and violence of peers, but there is a significant and inverse relationship between attachment and belief with variables in the subculture of violence and the violence of peers. Also, based on the findings of the research, it can be said: the different effects of attachment and belief on the cultural status and peers of the samples are not always one-sided effects and these effects can be mutual.  
Keywords
Belief in the law
Attachment to parents
Subculture of violence
peers
abnormality

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Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
Volume 13, Issue 25
August 2025
Pages 7-40