International Collaborative Research on Youthful Misbehavior

自七十年代初以来，人们越来越有兴趣使用自我报告法作为获得青少年不当行为措施的一种手段。自我报告的方法现在在美国和国外的研究人员中得到了广泛的使用。在1988年北约关于犯罪学研究中的自我报告方法论的研讨会上，有人提出了制定一个大型国际自我报告犯罪项目的想法。来自15个国家的主要研究人员研究了如何开发一种合适的跨国工具来衡量犯罪行为。经过一些初步测试，荷兰、德国、法国、意大利、瑞典、瑞士、北爱尔兰、英国、加拿大和美国正在开展全面的研究。该项目是国际自我报告犯罪项目的美国部分。ISRDP的目标是(1)检查青少年中自我报告的不良行为相关因素模式的跨国变异性，以及(2)在不同类型的青少年不良行为流行率的相对等级排序中获得跨国变异性的衡量标准。数据将从中西部城市社区收集，使用1000名年龄在14岁至21岁之间的年轻人的概率样本。研究人员将与ISRDP的其他参与者合作分析研究结果。在自我报告犯罪的设计、数据收集和数据分析方面的国际合作将为我们提供亟需的刺激，以促进我们对现代工业社会中青少年犯罪的真实性质和程度的理解。参与这一独特的研究工作将使人们能够进一步探索使用标准化问卷收集跨国家可比较的自我报告数据的可行性，并将能够测试关于不同文化间犯罪相关性的理论命题的概括性。

Since the early seventies there has been growing interest in using the self-report method as a means of obtaining measures of juvenile misbehavior. The self-report method has now gained widespread use among researchers, both in the United States and abroad. During a 1988 Nato Workshop on Self-Report Methodology in Criminological Research, the idea of developing a large-scale International Self- Report Delinquency Project (ISRDP) was proposed. Leading researchers from fifteen countries examined how to develop a suitable cross-national instrument to measure delinquency. After some pilot tests, full studies are now being launched in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, North Ireland, United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. This project is the United States part of the International Self- Report Delinquency Project. The objectives of the ISRDP are (1) to examine cross-national variability in patterns of correlates of self-reported misbehavior among youth and (2) to obtain measures of cross-national variability in the relative rank ordering of the prevalence of different types of youthful misbehavior. Data will be collected from a midwestern, urban community using a probability sample of 1,000 youth between the ages of 14 and 21. The researchers will collaborate with other participants in the ISRDP on the analysis of the findings. International collaboration on the design, data collection, and data analysis of self-reported delinquency will provide a much needed stimulus to the advancement of our understanding of the true nature and extent of youthful crime in modern industrial societies. Participation in this unique research endeavor will allow further exploration of the feasibility of collecting cross-nationally comparable self-report data using a standardized questionnaire and will permit testing of the generalizability of theoretical propositions regarding the correlates of delinquency across different cultures.