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

UPYC是一项对学童对犯罪和药物使用的经历和态度进行理论测试的比较调查，涵盖法国、德国、荷兰、英国和美国。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到30个国家，主要是欧洲，但也有其他大陆的国家。五名申请者中有四名是ISRD中央协调小组(CCT)的成员。这项研究的总体目标是绘制自我报告的犯罪行为和作为受害者的犯罪经历的差异，测试不同理论视角对解释这些差异的相对价值，发展和测试更综合的青少年犯罪理论，并得出对这五个国家青少年司法政策的影响。为此，将在五个国家的城市中对学龄儿童进行抽样调查。这项研究将有助于发展青少年犯罪的综合理论，并将追踪这一理论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.