Abstract
This study basically aims to examine the phenomenon of begging in the 19th century Ottoman center within the framework of the concepts of deviation, crime and social control. For this purpose, while the 19th century, a period in which the regulations regarding begging increased in the Ottoman Empire, was preferred as a chronological section, the study focus on the center in spatial terms. The main factor affecting such a choice is that the official documents on begging date back to the post 17th century, there are more documents from the 19th century, and the aforementioned documents mostly focus on the center. The importance of this study is that it examines the phenomenon of begging in the Ottoman Empire within the framework of the concepts of crime, deviation and social control. This study, which is a methodological case study, is based on the analysis of archive documents published on begging in the 19th century Ottoman center. Within the scope of the study, 42 archival documents belonging to the selected chronological period were examined and 30 documents selected from among these documents were used. Within the scope of the research, it was seen that begging was not a legal crime in the Ottoman center but with the perception that changed after the 19th century, begging was seen as a social and moral problem and efforts were made to prevent it, and for this purpose, Darülaceze was built and beggars were confined there
Keywords: Osmanlı Devleti, Dilencilik, 19. Yüzyıl, Modern Devlet, Sosyal Kontrol, Suç, Sapma
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