Results of the Second International Self-Report Delinquency Study
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This chapter looks at the self-reported offending behaviour of school children in the Republic of Ireland. The findings are derived from the administration of international self-reported delinquency (ISRD2) questionnaire to a sample of students mostly aged 13–15 years (n = 1,570) in their first, second and third years of secondary school across a number of cities and towns. In order to accurately...
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This chapter deals with the first highlights of the Canadian version of the International Self-reported Delinquency Study (ISRD), the International Youth Survey (IYS). The chapter presents the prevalence of various delinquent behaviour of youth in grades 7–9 attending school in Toronto, Canada. Violent and property delinquent behaviours are analysed separately. The report also examines risk factors...
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The United States is very different from its European counterparts in many ways. Indeed, American “exceptionalism” has been documented in a vast amount of scholarly and popular writings on the western world (e.g. Ross, 1991; Madsen, 1998; Hellerman and Markovits, 2001; Lipset, 1955, 1997, 2000; Wrobel, 1996). This alleged American “exceptionalism” is important to understand in order to interpret differences...
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Estonia is one of the three Baltic States, bordering Russia in the east, Latvia in the south, and the Baltic Sea in the north and the west. Estonia regained its independence in 1991 after a period of Soviet occupation that lasted five decades. Since gaining control over their own country, the people of Estonia have made strenuous efforts to rebuild the democratic institutions and the free market economy...
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Lithuania is the biggest state in the Baltic region, in territory and population. [The other Baltic states are Latvia and Estonia.] Its territory is 65,300 km2. On March 11 1990 Lithuania proclaimed the restoration of its statehood. Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania; its population is over half a million. Other big cities are Kaunas (population 360,627); large harbor Klaipėda (population 194,400);...
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Poland is located in Central Europe, has an area of about 312,000 km2, a population of over 38 million, and is the sixth biggest Member State in the European Union. Following a lengthy period of communist rule, Poland became a parliamentary democracy in 1989, with a market economy, and observing the principle of the rule of law. Poland has been a member of the Council of Europe since 1991; of the...
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The Czech Republic is situated in Central Europe between Germany, Poland, Slovakia, and Austria. Having a size of 79,000 km2 and a population of 10.3 million inhabitants (2006),2 it is one of the smaller countries of the European Union. The Czech Republic consists of three historical regions: Bohemia, Moravia, and a part of Silesia; however, now it is divided into 14 regions, one of which is its capital,...
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Hungary is situated in Eastern Europe, in the rolling plains of the Carpathian Basin. It covers an area of 93,000 km2, which is roughly equivalent to 1% of Europe’s territory. There are 3,145 settlements, 289 of which are urban; their number increased by 123 in the last 15 years, and tripled over the past 25 years. Two-thirds of the country’s inhabitants live in urban settlements. Hungary has been...
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Slovenia is one of the new transition states that emerged as independent state formations at the end of the last century, following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the related wave of transformation of political regimes, as well as geographic boundaries. Slovenia gained independence in 1991 with the secession from the former political formation of Yugoslavia, before the outbreak of bloody conflicts...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina was internationally recognised on 6 April 1992 when it regained its independence within its administrative borders. The country is situated in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula, and it is bordered by Serbia and Montenegro to the east and southeast and the Republic Croatia to the north, west and south. Bosnia and Herzegovina has a total area of 51,209 km2, land area 51,197...
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The Russian Federation is divided into seven federal districts and 86 regions. Moscow, the capital, has a population of over 10 million. The Russian Federation’s total population is 145.2 million (Federal Census 2002), and its territory is 17,075,400 km2. Average population density throughout the entire country is 8.36 per sq km, and between 40 and 100 per sq km in Russia’s European regions. Most...
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This paper presents and discusses the results of the first self-reported juvenile delinquency survey ever conducted in the Republic of Armenia. The project has been made possible, thanks to a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation awarded to the University of Lausanne. The survey research was carried out in the framework of ISRD-2 using the standard research technique, which makes the results...
