Fatalistic thought in convicted individuals

Destiny is one of the most curious topic today. It is explained by social scientists from different perspectives. The study focuses on destiny knowledge and fatalism tendencies of people who are convicted of different crimes. The research has been conducted on 114 people who are convicted of different crimes at the General Directorate Prohation in Bursa. Fate knowledge and fatalism tendencies of convict people have been investigated with socio-demographic variables and survey method. A direct relationship has been determind between education and economic level, being happy to come to the World and hope level about future of convict people. An inverse relationship has been found between age and fate knowledge of those people. A significant difference has been detected between fatalism and the state of violence in our study. There is destiny but there is not fatalism in Islam religion. The destiny belief does not eliminate responsibility in humans. The destiny belief offers the state of being well psychologically to people who struggle to survive in the World of difficulties.