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Increased criminality and crime rates driven by urbanization in modern societies inspired many researchers to study criminality and social environment. Social disorganization theory has been accepted as one of the most important theories which analyzes the relationship between social environment and crime. The theory pays attention to the impact of an individual's social environment on crime and criminality without ignoring the impact of individual characteristics of the criminals. Although there were previous studies on the ecology of crime and social environment of criminality, Social Disorganization approach developed by Shaw and McKay at the beginning of the 20th Century has been accepted as one of the keystones of the modern criminology in many ways. In this study, social disorganization framework has been used to understand the underlying assumptions and role of community oriented security policies (which are relatively new in Turkey) in combating crime and criminality.

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