Title:	A Global Perspective on Young People as Offenders and Victims
Authors:	Dirk Enzmann Janne Kivivuori Ineke Haen Marshall Majone Steketee Mike Hough Martin Killias
Keywords:	Victims
Issue Date:	2018
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	Global Perspective on Young People as Offenders and Victims is the latest report of research from the International Self-Report Delinquency Study, a bold, imaginative, and innovative collaboration that is providing scientific criminology with basic data about crime and delinquency of considerable importance. The idea that standardized data about the nature of delinquency and victimization could be collected reliably from respondents from countries around the world was a breathtaking idea and one many criminologists would not have thought possible. Differences in language, legal systems, demography, and economic development all cautioned against such an ambitious venture. The meaning of delinquency and adolescence was too variable and too culturally dependent to suppose that a single instrument with common questions about problem behaviors could provide meaningful data, even if an administrative system could be devised to collect the data. And yet here we are, at the third wave of data collection, and the level of participation, the survey quality, and the significance of the research all continue to increase with each administration. The result is a database with such significance that scientific criminology simply must pay attention. Both the methodological insights and the substantive findings of the ISRD are substantial, and the data are loaded with theoretical and policy significance for criminology. This monograph, along with the studies being published from the second wave of the project, is a testament to the triumph of a scientific disposition over data-free speculation. The scope of this project is large and ambitious, and the criminological community owes a debt of gratitude to the architects of these surveys: for their determination to overcome the many obstacles to the project, for their contributions to measurement and survey design issues, for their careful descriptions of procedures, for their studies of limitations to the data, and for their realized commitment to making their data publicly available in a short period of time.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/55158
ISBN:	978-3-319-63233-9
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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