Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda Ağır Cezaları Gerektiren Suç Sebepleri Üzerine Bir Tetkik (1839-1861)
An Examination of the Criminal Reasons That Required Severe Punishments in the Ottoman Empire (1839-1861)

Summary/Abstract: This study has three aims. These are to reveal the criminal motives that required severe punishments during the Abdulmecid period in the Ottoman Empire, to determine the crime and punishment scenes, and to examine the criminal profiles. Since the focus of the examination is on crimes, penalties are partially included. 18 different types of crimes have been identified that resulted in severe penalties. Data on 48 crime zones and 36 criminal areas have been obtained. The documents, which provide a cross-section of the period examined, have revealed that crimes and punishments aren’t concentrated in one center. It is understood that the intensity of crime is experienced in Dersaadet and the intensity of punishment is experienced in Cyprus and Vidin. In the social layer it has been revealed the number of Muslim prisoners is higher than the number of non-Muslim prisoners. It has been understood that Muslims tend to get money by force, plunder, banditry, desertion, bribery, and theft, and non-Muslims tend to act against slander and rituals. It has been found that Muslim and non-Muslim people from the farmer strata lead in the rate of committing crimes and that the accident managers from the ulema class participate in the crime element.

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