Disciplinary Management Approaches in the Prevention of Substance-Dependent Women's Crimes

Objective: The present study aimed to identify disciplinary management approaches in the prevention of substance-dependent women's crimes in the city of Shahryar. Method: The current research was descriptive-analytical conducted with a qualitative approach. The statistical population of the present study included experts and specialists in the field of disciplinary management and local managers in the city of Shahryar who were selected by purposeful or judgmental sampling method, and based on the principle of theoretical saturation, interviews were finally conducted with 13 people. The data were collected based on a semi-structured interview, and to analyze the data, a directed qualitative content analysis method with sentence-by-sentence analysis technique was used. Results: Based on the findings of the research, 18 disciplinary management approaches in the field of situational prevention, 29 disciplinary management approaches in the field of social prevention and 13 disciplinary management approaches in the field of criminal prevention were identified. Conclusion: The results of the research showed that continuous training of substance-dependent women, equipment of police patrols, and also collective efforts of all involved organs affected the prevention of substance-dependent women's crimes in the city of Shahryar.