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Introduction to the International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3)

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A Global Perspective on Young People as Offenders and Victims

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This introductory chapter presents a brief background to the third round of the International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3), an internationally collaborative study of delinquency among 7th, 8th, and 9th graders. The three core objectives of the ISRD are: (1) to measure the prevalence and incidence of offending and victimization; (2) to test theories about correlates of offending and victimization; and (3) to develop policy-relevant recommendations. It briefly discusses the first pioneering efforts of ISRD1 (1991–1992), the efforts of ISRD2 (2006–2008) to further maximize standardization and to extend the number of participating countries, and the inclusion of additional measures and countries by ISRD3 (2012–present). It provides the context for the presentation of the first results of the emerging international dataset consisting of survey results in 27 countries (n = 62,636).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The data for ISRD2 are freely available to download for researchers at participating institutions on the ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) website, including all pertinent documentation on the questionnaire and sampling procdures: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/34658.

  2. 2.

    In the current volume, we have not followed the same typology for analyzing ISRD3 data because of the wider range of nations involved.

  3. 3.

    At the time of writing, there were 33 ISRD3 participants who had signed the collaboration agreement and 26 had finished data collection and supplied a technical report by early 2017. The US data should be considered preliminary and incomplete since data collection in the USA was still ongoing at the time of writing.

  4. 4.

    The follow-up questions used in online data collection additionally serve this purpose.

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  1. Faculty of Law, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany

    Dirk Enzmann

  2. University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Janne Kivivuori

  3. School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

    Ineke Haen Marshall

  4. Verwey-Jonker Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Majone Steketee

  5. Institute for Criminal Policy Research, University of London, London, UK

    Mike Hough

  6. Zurich University, Zürich, Switzerland

    Martin Killias

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Enzmann, D., Kivivuori, J., Haen Marshall, I., Steketee, M., Hough, M., Killias, M. (2018). Introduction to the International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3). In: A Global Perspective on Young People as Offenders and Victims. SpringerBriefs in Criminology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63233-9_1

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