Juvenile Delinquency in Six New EU Member States

Authors: Majone Steketee Beata Gruszczyńska

Publish Date: 2010/06/01

Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 111-125

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Abstract

This article presents the results of the study conducted in six new member states that joined the European Union in 2004 This article is based on the report “Juvenile delinquency in six new EU member states’ 2008 Participant and coauthors where Jiri Burianek from the Charles University in Prague Bojan Dekleva from the University of Ljubljana Andreas Karpadis from the University of Cyprus Beata Gruszczyńska from the Warsaw University Institute of Justice of Poland Vidas Kalpokas from the Law Institute of Lithuania Anna Markina from the University of Tartu and Majone Steketee and Marit Moll from the VerweyJonker Institute The study has been financially supported by the European CoomunityDaphne2 Programme to Combat Violence against Children Young People and Women Five former eastern European countries the Czech Republic Estonia Lithuania Poland Slovenia and Cyprus a southern European country and former British colony in the eastern Mediterranean Often little is known about the prevalence of youth delinquency in these countries let alone in a transnational comparison In this study we examined the variability in patterns of selfreported youth delinquency behaviour and the relative ranking of the prevalence of different types of juvenile delinquency We also tested whether a number of sociological and criminological theories on prevalence and occurrence of youth delinquency are valid in these six countries

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