Cause Of Major Crime Essay

The topic of this study, social disorganization, will consist of the causes of major crime occurrence amid the Turkish juveniles. The rates of delinquency among these juveniles are high, which causes a major conflict for all society. To know the causes of these delinquency is much needed, even more is the solution for this increasing rate. Data, belonging to juveniles incarcerated from various Turkey juvenile correction facilities, was used from 2007. Also, to analyze the data, Binary Logistic regression was utilized. Two of the most important and most common factors that will be discussed in this article is education and living conditions. Education and living conditions could be possibility to the cause of major crime influence as indicated by multivariate analysis (Cam, 2014). These conclusions can be found in the following.

There are many reasons why juveniles commit criminal acts and there are many styles of criminal acts.

These acts consist of anything the juveniles can think of. The definition of delinquency and status offense is needed in order to understand why the types of crimes juveniles commit. “Failure to obey parents, not going to school, or running away from home” is defined as status offense (Cam, 2014). “Everything related to illegal acts, both status offense and criminal, that is done by a minor” is defined as delinquent behavior (Cam, 2014). These minors carrying out these actions are called juvenile delinquents. These delinquents are managed by being put in two different groups. These two groups are major crimes and non-major crimes. Since, major crimes will be the preliminary topic in this paper, a definition is given that is defined by the FBI. “Murder, aggravated assault, rape, robbery, burglary, motor vehicle theft, larceny theft, and arson are categorized as serious crimes” (Cam,

2014).
It is important to understand the logic behind delinquency in minors. Thus, social disorganization theory is tested in this study for the causes of serious crime amid the Turkish juveniles. This theory will help understand whether living in different environment affects the delinquency of juveniles. Data from Turkey will be used by using major crime that are serious crimes. This will be the first time this type of study will be tested for this particular topic. It gives a compare and contrast view between two diverse societies for further analysis. Therefore, in order to accomplish this study, a certain amount of data was collected.
Social disorganization is one of the major theories to analyze the reason for delinquency. “Population density, age, sex composition, poverty, and education”, are a few elements that show a relationship between society and delinquency (Cam, 2014). This is shown in the European studies in the 19th century.
Four different explanations were given that could influence this theory: “(1) delinquency is the breakdown of institutional, community based controls … (2) disorganization is community based institution that is generally caused by rapid industrialization, immigration process and urbanization, … (3) competition and dominance affect the performance of social institutions attractiveness of residential and business locations correspond closely to natural, ecological principles, … (4) These kind of areas cause the development of criminal values and traditions” (Cam, 2014).
Other scientists, like Cullen and Agnew (2006) have also acknowledged the fact that “rapid industrialization, urbanization, and breakdown of institution” as the elements of this theory (Cam, 2014). A secure and positive relation among peers and relatives, are the most critical elements of a socially organized community. Also, according to Sampson and Groves (1989), a community cannot have a strong and safe environment if it has a low socio economic status. Unfortunately, communities with a low socio economic status have a high possibility of crime rates than those with high socio economic status.