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

UPYC-France

Understanding and Preventing Youth Crime

A theory-testing comparative survey of schoolchildren’s experience of, and attitudes to, crime

UPYC-France is a theory-testing comparative survey of schoolchildren’s experience of, and attitudes to, crime and substance use in France. UPYC covers France, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and the United States of America. The study forms part of the International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3), covering some 25 to 30 countries, mainly in Europe but also from other continents.<br /><br />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.

A random sample of classes in school (most pupils are 12 to 15 years old), in the Aix en Provence and Marseille areas. Answers have been collected online, the sample is close to 2000 pupils.

Forthcoming

Forthcoming

Forthcoming

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.

Project coordination

Sebastian Roché (Politiques publiques, ACtion politique, TErritoires) – sebastian.roche@sciencespo-grenoble.fr

The author of this summary is the project coordinator, who is responsible for the content of this summary. The ANR declines any responsibility as for its contents.

Partner

SCCJ (Northeastern University) Department of Sociology and School of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Northeastern University
VU Amsterdam Department of Public Administration, VU Amsterdam
ICS (Uni Hamburg) Institute of Criminal Sciences, Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg
ICPR (Birkbeck) Institute for Criminal Policy Research, School of Law, Birkbeck
UMR PACTE (CNRS-IEP Grenoble) Politiques publiques, ACtion politique, TErritoires

Help of the ANR 110,855 euros
Beginning and duration of the scientific project: February 2014 - 36 Months

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