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Delinquent Behaviour in 30 Countries

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Describing the nature and distribution of delinquency in 30 countries is an awesome task. In order to make this task more manageable, we make extensive use of six country clusters based on Esping-Andersen (1990) and Saint-Arnaud and Bernard (2003) (see Chaps. 1 and 2). We will start by presenting some of our results from the total combined sample as well as for the country clusters, for prevalence, incidence and versatility of self-reported delinquency.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Measuring the % of youth who admitted to having committed any of the 12 offences (see Chap. 2).

  2. 2.

    Please note that Fig. 3.2 uses a different scale than Fig. 3.3.

  3. 3.

    Minor offenses include shoplifting, vandalism, group fights, carrying weapon (knife), hacking.

  4. 4.

    Serious offenses include theft, burglary theft of bike/motorcycle, auto theft, theft from car, robbery, assault, drugs dealing.

  5. 5.

    As explained in Chap. 2, we used an empirical criterion to distinguish between serious (i.e. rare) and non-serious (i.e. frequent) offenses. This should be kept in mind throughout the interpretation of the results presented in this chapter.

  6. 6.

    WODC definition was to “beat or hit someone ‘without’ and ‘with injuries’  ”.

  7. 7.

    WODC definition was “carrying weapon only ‘when going out’  ”.

  8. 8.

    11-year olds hardly committed any offenses.

  9. 9.

    The relatively high proportion of youth starting at age 12 is caused by the extremely small number of 12-year olds (4 and 8) in the Scandinavian sample.

  10. 10.

    In this respect we should recall that the UK does not participate in ISRD-2. This country has problems with immigrants coming from Bangladesh and Pakistan.

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Junger-Tas, J. (2012). Delinquent Behaviour in 30 Countries. In: The Many Faces of Youth Crime. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9455-4_3

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