Introduction Fear of crime is fundamentally an emotional reaction accompanied with danger and anxiety. This phenomenon is not necessarily a real fear and it could be an expected one. Theoretically, women and the elderly are more exposed to crime, and based on the valid documents, they have a higher fear of crime than others, because they are more vulnerable. Fear of crime as a social construct is affected by several factors and it seems that it could be additionally influenced by social and cultural capitals. When people get aged, they normally experience an unwelcome decrease in social networks that results from retirement, loneliness, or losing spouse. All of these experiences lead to the decline of social support. Accordingly, social isolation, and smaller social networks bring about fear of crime among the elderly people. Furthermore, having cultural capital means increasing information and cognitive potency. Naturally, growing information and cognitive strength equip individuals with some needed capabilities and skills for facing everyday life problems like fear of crime, because they are more able than others to distinguish the problem and to find suitable solutions for encountering them. As a result, the main goal of this research is to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capitals with fear of crime among the elderly people in Shiraz...