RT Article
T1 Is there a link between immigration and incarceration rate?: evidence from the Syrian refugee influx to Turkey
JF Global crime
VO 23
IS 3
SP 306
OP 333
A1 Mercan, Murat A.
A2 Barlin, Hande
A2 Begen, Nazire
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1837025878
AB 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.
K1 Refugees
K1 Immigrants
K1 incarceration rates
K1 natural experiment
DO 10.1080/17440572.2022.2077331