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Title
- Main Title The Function of Social Structure in Controlling Violent Crime in Turkey
Creator
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Author: Guclu, IdrisCreator Type: Personal
Contributor
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Chair: Williamson, David AllenContributor Type: PersonalContributor Info: Major Professor
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Committee Member: Fritsch, Eric J.Contributor Type: PersonalContributor Info: Minor Professor
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Committee Member: Zafirovski, Milan, 1958-Contributor Type: Personal
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Committee Member: Ignatow, GabrielContributor Type: Personal
Publisher
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Name: University of North TexasPlace of Publication: Denton, Texas
Date
- Creation: 2010-12
Language
- English
Description
- Content Description: This dissertation examines the relationship between social structural factors and violent crime rates in Turkey. The relationship between social structural characteristics and violent crime is worth exploring in areas that have attracted little academic attention, such as violent crime in Turkey. In order to understand and prevent the occurrence of crime, researchers have long investigated possible factors related to crime. Examining how crime varies across different regions can help us to understand underlying reasons for violent crime, which is considered one of the enduring problems in society. The findings of this research, to some extent, support the assumptions of social disorganization theory regarding the distribution of violent crime. Both the findings of multivariate and bivariate analysis indicated that poverty, unemployment, and family disruptions may have a positive effect on the distribution of violent crime in the cities of Turkey. The analysis of the effects of the social structure variables through the mediating variables, such as religious institutions, libraries and voluntary associations on the number of violent crimes and violent criminals, to some extent, support the tenets of social disorganization theory. However, all mediating variables cannot mediate all the indirect effects of social structural covariates. In brief, none of their indirect impacts on the social structural variables on the outcome variable was significant via mediating variables.
- Physical Description: viii, 136 p. : ill.
Subject
- Keyword: Social disorganization
- Keyword: criminals
- Keyword: violent
- Keyword: crimes
- Keyword: social institution
- Library of Congress Subject Headings: Violent crimes -- Social aspects -- Turkey.
- Library of Congress Subject Headings: Social structure -- Turkey.
- Library of Congress Subject Headings: Poverty -- Turkey.
- Library of Congress Subject Headings: Unemployment -- Turkey.
- Library of Congress Subject Headings: Broken homes -- Turkey.
Collection
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Name: UNT Theses and DissertationsCode: UNTETD
Institution
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Name: UNT LibrariesCode: UNT
Rights
- Rights Access: public
- Rights License: copyright
- Rights Holder: Guclu, Idris
- Rights Statement: Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.
Resource Type
- Thesis or Dissertation
Format
- Text
Identifier
- OCLC: 721907361
- UNT Catalog No.: b3988925
- Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc33225
Degree
- Degree Name: Doctor of Philosophy
- Degree Level: Doctoral
- Degree Discipline: Sociology
- Academic Department: Department of Sociology
- Degree Grantor: University of North Texas
Note
- Display Note: Restricted until January 1, 2016