Sınır ve Suç İlişkisi: Sarp Sınır Kapısı Üzerine Bir İnceleme
Connection Between Border and Crime: A Research About The Border Gate in Sarp

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to contribute for understanding that how border effects society by focusing on crimes. Previous studies discussed the connection between border and crime as a juridical, economic or criminological case that in the context of border transgressing. In this study, crimes were approached from a wider social perspective. How the border differentiates the social structure and people's lives are explored by placing the crime phenomenon at the focal point. For this purpose in this study a field research within social scientific qualitative approach had implemented. Sources of data are in-depth interviews with local people from border area, observations on the field and contacts with official institutions. Field of study is border gate in Sarp where is at border of Turkey and Georgia. Connection between border and crime is theoretical focus of the study. Crime phenomenon that was shaped by the border and social circumstances what was created by interaction between people and the border had mentioned in this study. Effects of the border about social relations, cultural interaction, everyday life and economical issues has suggested. As a result, basic determinant of connection between border and crime considered as economical structure that was shaped by border.

• Details
• Contents