Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-1-2022

Abstract

Measures of access to justice mainly use indicators from judicial statistics or legislation whereas subjective perceptions or attitudes are often measured by survey questions related to judicial services. Using Turkey’s Life Satisfaction Survey, we consider reluctance to report an experienced criminal incident, which is a factual statement, as an objective indicator affecting demand for and access to justice. We identify correlates of reluctance to report and find that socio-economic status has a negative impact on the probability of reporting a criminal incident, and that the impact is greater for women. Perceived social pressures related to gender and level of income adversely affect probability of reporting whereas men are not affected by social pressure to report criminal incidents. We then relate the probability of reluctance to report to the probability of giving a no opinion response to questions on perceptions of satisfaction with judicial services. We find that the two are correlated, providing evidence for the relationship between exclusion from access to justice and voice.

Journal Title

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

ISSN

2334-282X

Publisher

Middle East Economic Association and Loyola University Chicago

Volume

24

Issue

1

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Presentation of the articles in the Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies was made possible by a limited license granted to Loyola University Chicago and Middle East Economics Association from the authors who have retained all copyrights in the articles.

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