Understanding and Preventing Youth Crime: A Comparative Study in France, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and the US

• Applicant: Dr. Dirk Enzmann
• Subject Area: Criminology
• Term: from 2014 to 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 243745713

UPYC is a theory-testing comparative survey of schoolchildren's experience of, and attitudes to, crime and substance use, covering France, Germany, the Netherland, the UK and the United States of America. The study forms part of the International Self-Report Delinquency Study, covering some 25 to 30 countries, mainly in Europe but also from other continents. Four of the five applicants are members of ISRD's Central Coordinating Team (CCT). The study's overall aims are to chart variations in self-reported offending and experience of crime as victims, to test the relative value of different theoretical perspectives for explaining these variations, to develop and test more integrated theories of youth offending and to draw out the implications for youth justice policy in the five countries. In order to do this, surveys of school-children will be mounted in a sample of cities across the five countries The study will contribute to the development of an integrated theory of youth offending, and will trace the implications of this for youth justice policy.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• International Connection: France, Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA
• Participating Persons: Professor Dr. Hans Boutellier; Professor Mike Hough; Professorin Ineke Marshall; Dr. Guillaume Roux; Dr. Majone Steketee