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"Dreams Cancelled" : Turkey’s NGO sector & crime in disadvantaged minority youth

Bilici, Deniz LU (2020) SGED10 20201
Human Geography
Department of Human Geography
Abstract
Turkey's turbulent political atmosphere and recent upturns in crime and youth unemployment make it an interesting context to study the role of civil society in dealing with implications of socioeconomic disadvantage. The aim of this paper is to investigate how Turkey's NGO sector works in minority communities in ways that can hinder criminality in disadvantaged youth. In order to understand the interaction of NGO's and disadvantaged youth in the context of Turkish civil society, the study analyzes Turkey’s NGO sector using general strain theory and empowerment theory. Thus, I investigate Turkey’s NGO’s capacities to intervene in disadvantages that contribute to criminality as well as its ability to impact exclusive structures by empowering... (More)
Turkey's turbulent political atmosphere and recent upturns in crime and youth unemployment make it an interesting context to study the role of civil society in dealing with implications of socioeconomic disadvantage. The aim of this paper is to investigate how Turkey's NGO sector works in minority communities in ways that can hinder criminality in disadvantaged youth. In order to understand the interaction of NGO's and disadvantaged youth in the context of Turkish civil society, the study analyzes Turkey’s NGO sector using general strain theory and empowerment theory. Thus, I investigate Turkey’s NGO’s capacities to intervene in disadvantages that contribute to criminality as well as its ability to impact exclusive structures by empowering disadvantaged individuals.

I conduct two case studies using qualitative content analysis of the websites and documents of 8 NGO’s, examining Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Southeast region, as well as the Roma community. The findings of the research show that while Turkey's NGO sector delivers theoretically useful interventions to disadvantages that contribute to criminality, it is limited in several ways. For one, a group among minority youth specifically vulnerable to crime, those excluded from education, have not been targeted in the NGO's interventions. In addition the study suggests, supporting previous research, that Turkey’s government limits the extent to which the country’s NGO sector is able to empower individuals and achieve policy change. Furthermore, the analytical findings of this paper based on the aims, interventions and outcomes of the reviewed organizations support the argument made in previous research that grassroots partnerships are effective in delivering multiple interventions to a broad group of vulnerable youth in the interest of preventing crime. (Less)
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author
Bilici, Deniz LU
supervisor
organization
course
SGED10 20201
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Turkish NGO sector, minorities in Turkey, disadvantaged youth, civil society, crime prevention
language
English
id
9027616
date added to LUP
2020-09-02 09:23:09
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2020-09-02 09:23:09
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  abstract     = {{Turkey's turbulent political atmosphere and recent upturns in crime and youth unemployment make it an interesting context to study the role of civil society in dealing with implications of socioeconomic disadvantage. The aim of this paper is to investigate how Turkey's NGO sector works in minority communities in ways that can hinder criminality in disadvantaged youth. In order to understand the interaction of NGO's and disadvantaged youth in the context of Turkish civil society, the study analyzes Turkey’s NGO sector using general strain theory and empowerment theory. Thus, I investigate Turkey’s NGO’s capacities to intervene in disadvantages that contribute to criminality as well as its ability to impact exclusive structures by empowering disadvantaged individuals.

I conduct two case studies using qualitative content analysis of the websites and documents of 8 NGO’s, examining Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Southeast region, as well as the Roma community. The findings of the research show that while Turkey's NGO sector delivers theoretically useful interventions to disadvantages that contribute to criminality, it is limited in several ways. For one, a group among minority youth specifically vulnerable to crime, those excluded from education, have not been targeted in the NGO's interventions. In addition the study suggests, supporting previous research, that Turkey’s government limits the extent to which the country’s NGO sector is able to empower individuals and achieve policy change. Furthermore, the analytical findings of this paper based on the aims, interventions and outcomes of the reviewed organizations support the argument made in previous research that grassroots partnerships are effective in delivering multiple interventions to a broad group of vulnerable youth in the interest of preventing crime.}},
  author       = {{Bilici, Deniz}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{"Dreams Cancelled" : Turkey’s NGO sector & crime in disadvantaged minority youth}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}