The Relation between Education and Economic Crime: An Assessment for Turkey

Abstract

Crime has been perceived as a distortion in social rest and order since people had started living as a community and still keeps its importance. For that reason, societies have been trying to specify the reasons that drive people to commit crimes and to eliminate those reasons. Social sciences’ concerns about the crime are generally limited to the reasons and the consequences of crimes, both theoretically and empirically. The fight against crime is crucial especially for its effects on social welfare. In this sense education level and welfare of a society is important for crime types and crime rates. Hereunder, convict statistics of age, education and occupation from justice statistics from Turkish Statistics Institute and their relation between economic crimes will be investigated. Since there are limited studies on crime for Turkey, this study is an expected contribution to the literature. Further, it is aimed to find connections between reasons of economic crime and age, education and occupation statistics and to prevent crimes by helping the policies of the fight for crime.