In recent years, widespread internet usage, increasing numbers of IoT devices, and vast data on social media have increased cyber attack vectors. Parallel to this trend, the demand for the cyber security workforce has augmented; however, employers could not fill these positions due to the shortage in the field. This anomaly, in turn, has placed companies in a vulnerable situation by being exposed to an increased level of cyber security threats/incidents. Relevant authorities underscore the importance of a comprehensive cybersecurity workforce framework to overcome this problem. Given this context, this study offers a CyberSec Labs framework to improve the skills of potential cybersecurity actors. The framework extensively benefits from hands-on exercises like cloud computing and networking, OSINT, data-driven cybersecurity approach, vulnerability and penetration test analysis, and volatility analysis. The overall goal of this open-source material is to prepare students for their future cybersecurity roles, which contributes to overcoming the shortage of skilled human capital in the cybersecurity field.

Based on quantitative data obtained from 467 handwritten background reports prepared by members of Turkish Hizbullah, this study examines the relationship between some individual and social characteristics of the militants and radicalization process in this terrorist organization. There are basically three basic categories into which the members of the organization can be placed: 1) low level; members who only joined the lectures of the organization, 2) middle level; members who have any kind of responsibility in the organization, and 3) high level; members who are in military wing. In order to legitimize its activities, the organization abuses the religious concepts ideologically. The findings regarding the level of religiosity of the members, however, are quite surprising. That is, before-joining religiosity level of the military wing members is the lowest when before-joining religiosity levels of the members in all three categories are concerned. The results concerning the level of practicing religious practices among members are also consistent with previous findings.

Purpose - In this study, the aim is to address the void in the comparative literature of criminology and criminal justice by investigating public attitudes toward law enforcement in a rapidly developing country, Turkey.Design/methodology/approach - Three different models of satisfaction with law enforcement, the demographic model, the quality of life model and the experiential model are subjected to empirical scrutiny in the context of policing in Turkey. In line with extant research on satisfaction with law enforcement in the West, all three models significantly explain the variation of satisfaction with law enforcement across a random sample of 6,713 individuals living in urban and rural parts of Turkey. Specifically, the quality of life model and the experiential model had considerable impact on public satisfaction with law enforcement and in general, all three models produced results in the predicted direction.Findings - Overall, the findings suggest the robust nature of the integrated demographic, quality of life, and experiential models in explaining public satisfaction with law enforcement. In the demographic model, however, income and education had significant negative impact on global satisfaction with law enforcement. Considering the fact that more educated and well off citizens are likely to value freedom more and that law enforcement may represent an oppressive part of a democratic government, this might account for the reaction of higher socioeconomic classes to the power distance between the state, the police in particular, and civil society.Originality/value - In terms of policy recommendations, to the extent that community policing is regarded as a set of strategies for improving the quality of police-citizen encounters and reforming

Modern toplumlarda kentlesmeyle beraber artan sucluluk ve suc oranlari arastirmacilari suc ve sosyal cevre uzerinde calismaya itmistir. Sosyal Duzensizlik Teorisi sosyal cevre ve suc arasindaki etkilesimi inceleyen en onemli teorilerden birisi olarak kabul edilmektedir. Teori, suc ve suclulugun olusumu uzerinde suc isleyen bireylerin kisisel ozelliklerinin yani sira bu bireyleri kusatan sosyal cevrenin etkisine dikkat cekmektedir. Suc ekolojisi ve sosyal cevre konusunda daha once yapilmis calismalar olmasina ragmen 20'nci yuzyilin baslarinda Shaw ve McKay tarafindan gelistirilen sosyal duzensizlik teorisinin bircok yonden modern kriminolojinin temellerini attigi kabul edilmektedir. Bu calismada sosyal duzensizlik yaklasimi kullanilarak ulkemizde nispeten yeni uygulanmaya baslayan toplum destekli guvenlik uygulamalarinin temel varsayimlari ve suc ve suclulukla mucadeledeki rolu anlasilmaya calisilmistir.

Most fear of crime research has occurred in Western countries. The following analysis presents an integrated model of fear of crime for a randomly selected sample of 6,713 individuals from urban and rural parts of Turkey. Consistent with previous research, the victimization model, disorder model, and community concern/social control model predicted fear of crime among Turkish citizens. The integrated model of fear of crime, however, functioned differently in the Turkish context based on gender and residential locale. Increased age lowered the level of fear for women but not for men, and the positive impact of previous victimization on fear of crime was significantly more pronounced among females. Increased education reduced fear for urban dwellers, but not for rural residents. While age did not have a significant impact on fear for rural residents, in contrast to the vulnerability hypothesis, it reduced the level of fear for urban residents.

The primary focus of this study is to explore the relationship between structural factors of a specific society and occurrence of terror related crimes. Accordingly, the objective of this study is to examine how or to what extent social disorganization theory, which is the basic theoretical foundation of this study, can explain terrorism related crimes in Turkey. Although several previous studies investigated the social and structural dimensions of terrorism in a country, many of those studies did not go beyond investigating the impacts of traditional structural factors such as poverty, inequality, and education on terrorism. This study goes a step further by adding the mediating factors between those primary social disorganization variables and terror related crimes. Direct, indirect and, total effects of structural variables on terrorism through the mediating variables, that is prevalence of voluntary associations and religious institutions, are examined. Findings obtained from multivariate and mediation analyses show that while some structural variables such as education and poverty are directly related to distribution of terror related crimes, this relationship became indirect through the mediating variables for other structural variables such as residential mobility and unemployment. Results suggest that rather than overreliance on traditional antiterrorism strategies which are mostly depending on the public level control such as law enforcement process, programs supported by other levels of social control, that is, parochial and private levels must be encouraged.