Revolution and crime trends in Egyptian society: an analysis of the content of the page incidents in Al Ahram newspaper

Title: Revolution and crime trends in Egyptian society: "Content Analysis of Al-Ahram Newspaper Submitted by: Aliaa El-Mofty Said Mahmoud Supervised by: Prof.Talaat Ibrahim Lotfy Degree: M.A Specialization: Sociology The study aims, generally, at Sociological analysis of crime through the objective, regular and Quantitative description for the obvious content of communication or media message at the same way it has been a Addressed by Accidents paper in Al-Ahram newspaper, And how it has been affected by 25-Jan revolution, through content analysis of accidents paper in Al-Ahram newspaper along 1 year (from July-2010 to July-2011) to recognize the personal and demographic characteristics to the criminals, and the status of arrested criminals, and their purposes of perpetration the crime along six months before the revolution, and six months after the revolution, in addition to recognizing the size, types, means, method, time and place of perpetrating the crime before and after the revolution . In order to reach the objectives of the study, answer the questions and assure the hypotheses comparative method is used by researcher. The required data for this study has been collected according to content analysis. The current study consists of two parts include the six chapters; the first part includes the theoretical Frame of the study. It is divided into three chapters. The first chapter shows the objectives of the study and its fundamental concepts. The second chapter presents the theoretical trends which explain the crime. The third chapter includes a critical and analytical exposition of the previous studies which handled the phenomena of the crime. Concerning part two, it exposes the plan of the field study and its results it includes three chapters, the fourth chapter shows the plan of the field study, the fifth chapter shows the personal and demographical characteristics of offenders and its motives to crimes. The sixth and final chapter discusses the patterns, time and place of crime. The results of the study support the validity of the following hypotheses: 1- There is a relation between revolution and increasing the rate of crime in Egyptian society. 2- The rate of crime is increasing in males comparing with females. 3- There is a relation between unemployment and increasing the rate of crime. 4- Social and economic strains are considered the most important factor of crime perpetration in the Egyptian society. 5- Crime pattern varies according to the Difference of offender career. 6- Revolution led to increasing crowding crimes, resisting the authorities and creating chaos in the society. 7- The contact of person with members of the outlaws primary groups lead to the acquisition of criminal behavior. 8- The rate of crime increasing in urban areas comparing with nomadic and rural areas. The results of the study didn’t support the validity of the following hypotheses: 1 - The rate of crime increasing among relatives comparing with others.