This book presents the first major release of findings from the Fourth International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD4), an ongoing, multi-national project examining young people's experiences with both victimization and offending. Covering 21 countries, this book reports responses from 58,000 young people aged 13 to 17, exploring their experiences with crime as victims, offenders, and offender-victims. The book provides in-depth analyses of cross-national crime patterns, the victim-offender overlap, the overlap in both online and offline domains, and the experiences of serious and repeat victims and offenders. It concludes with a thought-provoking discussion of the implications for theory as well as policy.
Key takeaways from the study include:
- Cultural differences significantly impact the willingness to disclose offending behavior.
- Online victimization is an increasing concern, especially among girls and younger adolescents
- Overlap between online and offline forms of crime, and between victimization and offending is present in all countries
- Hate crimes and parental violence are more common than typically recognized.
Authored by an international team, this book is essential for researchers in criminology, criminal justice, sociology, public policy, youth studies, and psychology.
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Young People as Victims, Offenders and Victim-Offenders.- Chapter 3. Experience with Crime in the Online and Offline Domains.- Chapter 4. Repeat and Serious Offending.- Chapter 5. Thinking about Theory and Practice.
Ineke Haen Marshall is Professor of Sociology, Criminology, and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University in Boston, USA. She has published on comparative criminology, drug policy, criminal careers, minorities and crime, and cross-national methodology. She has been involved in the ISRD project from its inception. She is the founding editor-in-chief of International Criminology, the official publication of the Division of International Criminology of the American Society of Criminology.
Karin Arbach is a Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and a Professor of Criminal Psychology at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. She has held academic positions at the University of Barcelona and Pompeu Fabra University in Spain. Dr. Arbach's primary research focuses on the assessment and management of violence risk within clinical, forensic, and correctional populations. She serves as a consultant on these topics for both private and public organizations across Latin America. Additionally, she has led several research projects on juvenile violence, sexual abuse, and intimate partner violence, with the goal of empirically testing contemporary explanatory models. Since 2019, Dr. Arbach has coordinated the International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD4) in Argentina and was recently appointed to the Steering Committee.
Chris Birkbeck is Professor of Criminology at the University of Salford, United Kingdom, and Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela. He has also held visiting posts at the University of New Mexico and the University of Florida in the United States. His research has ranged over a variety of topics: the situational analysis of crime, community policing, police use of force, imprisonment and community sanctions, restorative justice, youth offending and victimization, moral stances towards crime, and comparative criminology. He has published in both Spanish and English and is a reviewer for numerous journals in both languages. He is currently a member of the Steering Committee of the ISRD project.
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