The exposure of university youth to social networking sites and its relationship to their attitudes towards committing crimes

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faculty of speciefic edycation minia university egypt

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The aim of the research is to identify the attitudes of university youth towards committing crimes, and the researcher used the descriptive approach, and the study sample consisted of 454 male and female students from the Universities of Minya, Al-Azhar and Al-Nahda universities. Towards committing crimes, they ranged between (86.2: 48.8%), where the phrase (I feel angry and panicked when I watch videos of killing of hostages shown on the communication sites) came in the first place, while the newspaper (When I watched such crimes on the communication sites increased my tendency towards committing crimes crimes) in last order, There are statistically significant differences between males and females in the study sample in their attitudes towards committing crimes in favor of males, and this can be explained by the fact that males are more aggressive and have tendencies towards violence and severity more than females, as females are overcome by feelings and emotions and control their behavior

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