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As a social fact, child crime is a problem that has been experienced in the world for many years and the number of days passing is increasing. In general, for individuals involved in crime until the 19th century, the provisions of the same criminal laws were applied without discrimination between children and adults. In 1899, with the establishment of the Cook County Children's Court in Chicago, Illinois, cases related to child crime began to be dealt with from a scientific perspective. The first studies on child crime in our country began in the years after the Republic's announcement. Due to the lack of sufficient statistics and scientists interested in the subject in earlier periods, child crime has found a late place in criminal sociology-psychology and criminal law. The first investigation of criminals in Turkey was conducted in 1931. From that time to the present day, quantitative and qualitative research on the solution of child crime has begun to be dealt with from a broad perspective with its sociological, psychological and legal dimensions. The purpose of this study is to understand the fact of child crime in our country and the social causes that lead to this fact in the example of Antalya in a sociological context. The field data of the investigation consists of children brought to the Children's Branch Directorate associated with the Antalya Provincial Security Directorate located in the center of Antalya between July and December 2003. According to the data obtained from the study, half of the children involved in the crime case in Antalya (41%) are family children who have experienced physical environmental change as a result of domestic immigration. The number of criminals in the families and relatives of children is unminimized (35%). 34% of respondents have previously committed a crime. With urbanization, the increasing number of people and diversified crimes should be combated by making long-term programmes prior to crime, not after crime. Children’s crime, one of the most important social problems of today, is a rapidly growing problem in our country as well as in the world. Keywords: Child, Child Crime, Child Branch Directorate, Family, Immigration, Unemployment, Education, Urbanization. As a social phenomenon, juvenile delinquency is a problem that has been experienced in the world for many years and its number is increasing day by day. Generally, until the 19th century, the same criminal laws were applied to the individuals who were involved in the crime without discriminating between children and adults. In 1899, with the establishment of the Cook County Juvenile Court in Chicago, Illinois, juvenile delinquency cases have been treated with a scientific perspective. In our country, the first studies on juvenile delinquency began after the 1930s. In earlier times, he was late in the psychology of criminal justice and psychology and criminal law because of the lack of adequate statistics and the lack of scientists interested in the subject. The first research on child offenders have been made in Turkey in 1931. Since then, quantitative and qualitative research on the solution of juvenile delinquency have begun to be addressed from a broad perspective with sociological, psychological and legal dimensions. The aim of this study is to understand the phenomenon of juvenile delinquency in our country and the social causes leading to this phenomenon in Antalya in a sociological context. The research was conducted between July 7, 2003 and June 30, 2005 in the Children's Branch of the Antalya Provincial Security Directorate in Antalya. According to the data obtained from the study, almost half of the children (41%) who were involved in the crime in Antalya were the children of the family who experienced a physical environmental change due to internal migration. The number of offender models in the family and relatives of children is considerable (35%). 34% of the respondents had previously committed a crime/criminal offense. With urbanization, the number of people increasing and diversified crimes should be tackled by long-term programs before crime, not after the crime. Because juvenile delinquency, which is one of the most important social problems of today, is a rapidly growing problem in our country as well as in the world. Keywords: Child, Youth Delinquency, Child Police Department, Family, Migration, Unemployment, Education, Urbanization.

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