Juvenile Delinquency in Turkey: A Multilevel Approach.

      Аннотация: Understanding patterns of delinquency and mapping out the individual and environmental level factors that cause delinquency is the key in developing appropriate policies to reduce delinquency. However, most of these studies analyzed these factors have been conducted in Western countries. Thus, this book tries to discover whether these variables can explain variances in delinquency in Turkey that has a different culture. Moreover, Turkish policymakers mostly focus on crimes of children who live on the streets rather than crimes of all juveniles. Therefore, this study tries to analyze the crime patterns of all delinquents. To accomplish these goals, secondary data on the characteristics of 27 Turkish cities and characteristics of 84,639 suspected juveniles were analyzed. Since both city level and individual level variables were used in the analyses, the hierarchical linear model (HLM) was used to avoid ecological fallacy. The results show that patterns of juvenile delinquency in Turkey have both similarities and differences from other Western countries, most of the delinquents come from intact families, and neighborhood level data is necessary to develop appropriate policies.

Ключевые слова: crime prevention, Juvenile Delinquency, multilevel, Turkey