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This article presents the results of the study conducted in six new member states that joined the European Union in 2004 (This article is based on the report “Juvenile delinquency in six new EU member states’, 2008. Participant and co-authors where Jiri Burianek from the Charles University in Prague, Bojan Dekleva from the University of Ljubljana, Andreas Karpadis from the University of Cyprus, Beata Gruszczyńska from the Warsaw University & Institute of Justice of Poland, Vidas Kalpokas from the Law Institute of Lithuania, Anna Markina from the Uni-versity of Tartu and Majone Steketee and Marit Moll from the Verwey-Jonker Institute) (The study has been financially supported by the European Coomunity-Daphne-2 Programme to Combat Violence against Children, Young People and Women.). Five former eastern European countries; the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia and Cyprus, a southern European country and former British colony in the eastern Mediterranean. Often little is known about the prevalence of youth delinquency in these countries, let alone in a trans-national comparison. In this study we examined the variability in patterns of self-reported youth delinquency behaviour and the relative ranking of the prevalence of different types of juvenile delinquency. We also tested whether a number of sociological and criminological theories on prevalence and occurrence of youth delinquency are valid in these six countries.
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Such as the relationship with parents, parental supervision, attachment to school, school achievement, peer group membership and attitudes to pro-social behaviour.
The Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology and the National Research Institute of Legal Policy of Finland made a comparison of the ISRD study’s outcomes in the four Nordic Capital Cities. They analysed the results of the questionnaire for Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo and Stockholm.
Low reporting rate to the police were observed in post socialist countries in the International Crime Victim Survey (ICVS), (Gruszczyńska 2002), what can be explained, beside others, the weak confidence towards police.
Versatility is a measure for the number of different offences committed by an offender. It has been argued that such variety score is useful because they show the extent of involvement in different type of crimes (Junger-Tas et al. 2003).
Instruments developed by the Eurogang Research Program. There are six items within the questionnaire that measures the membership of a gang.
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Steketee, M., Gruszczyńska, B. Juvenile Delinquency in Six New EU Member States. Eur J Crim Policy Res 16, 111–125 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10610-010-9123-x
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