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From past to present, crime existed through all human populations, and it surely will do in future. In social life, many factors affecting crime can be mentioned. Therefore researches related with crime are among the important subject of many scientific studies. The objective of this study is to analyze whether there is a relationship between crime and the independent variables including unemployment, divorce rate, migration and education status (literate but no school completed) using dynamic panel data analysis via STATA software. For this purpose, a panel data set was set up for 26 geographic regions of Turkey (due to Turkish Statistics Institution classifications) for the years 2008-2014 and the generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator was applied to dynamic models of panel data. The results of the study show that although divorce rate and education status are significant, the variables of unemployment and internal migration are insignificant for the effect on crime

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