Is there a link between immigration and incarceration rate?: Evidence from the Syrian refugee influx to Turkey

IF 1.4 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-05-24 DOI:10.1080/17440572.2022.2077331

M. A. Mercan, H. Barlin, Nazire Begen

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In this study, we investigate the impact of an increase in the number of refugees on a host country’s incarceration rate, through the specific case of the inflow of Syrian refugees into Turkey. Using statistics from Turkish penal institutions for the period of 2010 to 2015, we applied the difference-in-difference, panel event study, synthetic control, and instrumental variable approaches to measure the changes in the incarceration rate during the time of peak Syrian refugee migration. Our results suggest that the refugee influx into sampled Turkish cities did not have a statistically significant impact on the incarceration rate when compared to control locations. All four of the methods yielded similar results in the robustness exercises designed to check the relationship between the number of refugees and the rate of incarceration.

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移民和监禁率之间有联系吗？：叙利亚难民涌入土耳其的证据

摘要在本研究中，我们通过叙利亚难民流入土耳其的具体案例，调查了难民人数增加对东道国监禁率的影响。利用土耳其刑事机构2010年至2015年期间的统计数据，我们应用差异、小组事件研究、综合控制和工具变量方法来衡量叙利亚难民移民高峰期监禁率的变化。我们的研究结果表明，与对照地点相比，涌入土耳其抽样城市的难民对监禁率没有统计学上的显著影响。这四种方法在旨在检查难民人数与监禁率之间关系的稳健性练习中都产生了类似的结果。

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Global Crime CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

CiteScore

3.90

自引率

4.50%

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期刊介绍： Global Crime is a social science journal devoted to the study of crime broadly conceived. Its focus is deliberately broad and multi-disciplinary and its first aim is to make the best scholarship on crime available to specialists and non-specialists alike. It endorses no particular orthodoxy and draws on authors from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, criminology, economics, political science, anthropology and area studies. The editors welcome contributions on any topic relating to crime, including organized criminality, its history, activities, relations with the state, its penetration of the economy and its perception in popular culture.