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

UPYC是一项理论测试性比较调查，调查对象包括法国、德国、荷兰、英国和美利坚合众国的学童对犯罪和药物使用的经历和态度。这项研究是国际自我报告犯罪研究的一部分，涵盖了大约25至30个国家，主要在欧洲，但也来自其他大陆。五名申请人中有四名是发展局中央协调小组的成员。该研究的总体目标是绘制自我报告的犯罪和作为受害者的犯罪经历的变化图表，测试解释这些变化的不同理论视角的相对价值，开发和测试更综合的青少年犯罪理论，并得出对五个国家青少年司法政策的影响。为了做到这一点，将在五个国家的城市样本中对学龄儿童进行调查。这项研究将有助于发展青少年犯罪的综合理论，并将追踪这项研究对青少年司法政策的影响。

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.