Crime habitat and criminal youth Habitus - İzmir city sample

The thesis study asserts that the deviation/crime; as expressed by social inorganization theories, has a meaning beyond its being as a result of the development and change in urban life or being basically a group behavior as expressed by sub-culture theories; or beyond those expressed by the theoretical approaches such as tension, rational choice, opportunity, social learning, etc. İn order to find this meaning, it suggest to purely look at the crime by getting out of shadow of criminology as well as look at the culture by getting out of shadow of anthropology. İn the theoretical framework of the study, an eclectic theoretical approach, which can respond to conceptual framework discussions and the needs of field work, has been tried to be brought through the efficient names of sociology such as Jürgen Habermas and Pierre Bourdieu. In the section of methodology of the study, methodological/objective coordinates of the crime habitat, the theoretical coordinates of which have been determined in the theoretical framework, through the statistical and document analyzes. On the other hand, in the section, in which the qualitative data obtained fulfilled for the sample inhabiting in İzmir province crime habitat have been interpreted, firstly lower and upper themes have been determined. In this context, 10 upper themes and 28 lower themes for crime habitat; and 10 upper themes and 12 lower themes for criminal youth habitus, totally 20 upper themes and 40 lower themes have appeared. In the conclusion section, the conclusions and suggestions about current and future situations for crime habitat and criminal youth habitus.