In hoeverre kan het verschil in criminaliteit tussen Marokkaanse en Turkse jongeren verklaard worden door de band die zij hebben met hun familie en in welke mate is het verschil afhankelijk van de eigen thuissituatie?

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a research about the influence of social bonds with family and the home situation of Turkish and Moroccan youngsters on crime. This research focused on an expected crime difference between Moroccan and Turkish adolescents in the Netherlands, whereas the Moroccans where assumed to score higher on crime then Turks. Data is used from the Cils4-EU project, a research about intergenerational intergration of immigrant teenagers. Items were selected and based on Hirschi’s social bond theory and Agnew’s revised strain theory .The current study contains a sample of (n=128) Turkish and (n=147) Moroccan boys. After logistic regressionanalyses and a linear regressionanalyse, the results indicated unexpected results. Especially the significant higher crime rate for Turkish boys was remarkable. There was no relation found between ethnicity and the variables emotional support, control, and home situation. Emotional support and home situation did have an effect on criminality. These latest results supported one of the two contructs of the social bond theory and the one construct for the revised strain theory. The conclusion in this study is that Turkish youngsters score significant higher on criminality then Moroccan youngsters and that this difference in crime can not be explained by the homesituation and social bonds with parents. Future studies have to research if they also can find this crime difference, and if so, the explanation may be found in other constructs.